As The Hill reports, 10 states have still haven’t released racial data on their coronavirus deaths, according to the COVID Tracking Project and the Antiracist Research & Policy Center.
According to Johns Hopkins’ Coronavirus Resource Center, only Illinois, Kansas, and the District of Colombia have released comprehensive coronavirus data by race (this means not only testing deaths and confirmed cases, but who has been tested).
According to The Hill, one of the coronavirus response bills stipulated $500 million go toward modernizing our public health infrastructure—a provision which would include better data collection—but did not mandate that racial and ethnic data be part of that.
Michigan was among the first states to announce a dedicated task force to study racial disparities in COVID-19 cases and the spread of the coronavirus.
Part of that effort included building upon existing racial disparity data from studying maternal mortality in the state.
