Coronavirus Devastates Black New Orleans: ‘This Is Bigger Than Katrina’

New Orleans and Louisiana are taking a direct hit from the coronavirus pandemic. More people in the state are currently on unemployment rolls 300,000 and more have died 2,500 than when Hurricane Katrina slammed the shores 15 years ago. The New Orleans area at one point had the worst coronavirus death rate in the U.S.

As with Katrina, the burden is falling disproportionately on black Louisianians.

Black residents make up 32% of the state s population but 55% of its deaths from Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. The numbers are similar in New York, Chicago and across the country.

via www.msn.com