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<strong>This week I read an article, “The Racial Time Bomb In The Covid-19.” by Charles. M Blow.</strong> In the New York Times. The article pointed out the “Power health” in the South. Most black people live in the South. <strong>Researchers worry about African Americans.</strong> Some get advantages in African countries and some don’t get an advantage in America. “More than 75 percent had high blood pressure, about 35 percent had diabetes and a third suffered from heart disease.” Black people have more death rates from heart disease and diabeties. “African-Americans with diabetes were 1.5 times more likely to be hospitalized and 2.3 times more likely to die from diabetes than non-Hispanic whites.” In southern states declined to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care act. However, <strong>Covid-19 not distinction racial or ethnic lines. But black people facing different racial problems by the disease.</strong> https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/01/opinion/coronavirus-black-people.html?searchResultPosition=8