Medical workers tend to a patient at a Brooklyn hospital that has seen a rise in coronavirus-related cases in New York City on December 15, 2020.Spencer Platt / Getty Images Research has long shown that Black people live sicker lives and die younger than white people.Now a new study, published Tuesday in JAMA, casts the nation's racial inequities in stark relief, finding that the higher mortality rate among Black Americans resulted in 1.63 million excess deaths relative to white Americans over more than two decades.
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