With COVID-19 heavily impacting African-Americans, Bayview officials seek more help

In cities across the country, people of color — particularly African-Americans — have made up a disproportionate percentage of deaths from COVID-19.

A recent CDC study found that black people were being hospitalized for COVID-19 at a rate that was nearly double their representation in the studied population. Similarly, 12% of California's COVID-19 fatalities so far have been African-American people, who comprise only 6.5% of the state's population.