Covid pandemic disproportionately affected younger Americans of color, says study

It's "really devastating, because these are individuals who could be contributing to our society and, more importantly, contributing to their families", said Utibe Essien, an assistant professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, a primary care physician and one of the co-authors of the study. 

"The disparities happen in this working-age population where the implications are so much longer-lasting – that, to me, was the shocking thing," said Jeremy Faust, an emergency physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital, assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and lead author of the study...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/21/covid-younger-americans-of-color