Where African Americans live also makes a difference. Nearly 25 percent of employed Black and Hispanic people work in the service industry, the CDC says, which requires more interaction with the public and increased risk of COVID-19. They are more likely to have essential jobs that cannot be done remotely. Factors include pre-existing health conditions such as Diabetes. From permanently closed businesses to limited access to health care, housing and food insecurity, increases in suicide and violent crime and educational setbacks, experts say it will take years before Black Americans are able to fully recover from the pandemic.īlack people are more than twice as likely to be hospitalized due to coronavirus. The recovery of most people of color has been sporadic and uneven. Two years into the pandemic and multiple variants that have resulted in one million deaths across the U.S., Black Americans are still suffering from COVID-19’s public health and economic consequences. She’s glad to have a job, but the big pay cut is hard to swallow. But in 2022 she’s on her own, with no steady income.Īfter a year of unemployment Moshi Bernard, 36, has a job as a librarian earning $20,000 less than she made in the finance department of a local hotel before the pandemic. Her rent was paid by a city rental assistance program all last year. hotel in the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Linda Butler-Johnson, a 61-year-old widow, hasn’t had steady work for two years, not since she was laid off from her housekeeper job at a Washington, D.C.
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