As many nations mark a year of deaths from COVID-19, all must reflect on a shaming fact: minority racial and ethnic communities have lost the most. In the United States, Black people, Pacific Islanders, Latino people and Native Americans have age-adjusted COVID-19 death rates more than twice those in white people. Black and South Asian groups have the highest death rates in the United Kingdom, as do Indigenous peoples in Brazil, and poor and Black communities in South Africa.
