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A new study lists the underlying conditions that increase the risk for coronavirus patients. The top three mdash; hypertension, obesity and diabetes mdash; are more likely to be found among African Americans, a community where the virus is stanley cup taking an especially heavy toll.COVID-19 has left two gaping holes in Sandi Thomas life. Mommy and Penny are gone and it s very sad and lonely in there, Thomas said.On March 18, her 87-year-old mo stanley cup ther, Gertrude, was admitted to a Baltimore hospital. Just five days later, her sister, Penny, was too. Both died within days of each other in the same intensive care unit. Are you holding it together CBS News asked. Through the grace of God, Thomas said.In Maryland, black people account for 31% of the population but almost 45% of the probable coronavirus deaths. In Louisiana, African Americans make up 33% of the population, but 56% of the deaths. Cities like New York, Chicago and Washington D.C. also show similar disparities. There s no single source of why this occurs, Dr. Selwyn Vickers, vice president of medicine and dean of the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, explains.Vickers says historical inequity plays a role. They are the ones that not only will have limited access to care at times, but also limited access to proper nutrition and have a high rate of stanley cup preexisting conditions, he said.The NAACP this week sounded the alarm through Baltimore s streets. The messa Xijy BuzzFeed News is shutting down, as parent company cuts 15% of jobs
HEMPSTEAD, Texas -- Texas officials released video of Sandra Bland being booked and processed after her arrest in an attempt to dispel rumors of mistreatmen salomon t by jailers in the three days before she was found dead in her jail cell.Waller County Judge Trey Duhon told reporters in a presentation of the video that law enforcement officials have received death threats stemming from Internet rumors that Bland was dead before she was taken to jail. He also contradicted rumors that a mugshot circulated around the web is a photo of her after she had died.Sandra Bland was alive and well, before she was discovered hanging in her jail cell on July 13, Duhon said. There are people out there trying to put out that she was murdered and salomon deceased before she came to the Waller County Jail. airmax Former FBI official analyzes Sandra Bland arrest 01:57 Bland, a 28-year-old black woman, died in the county jail after a traffic stop by a white state trooper for failing to use a turn signal escalated into a physical confrontation. Her arrest has gotten international attention and questions about whether she was mistreated due to her race. Bland, who was from Naperville, Illinois, was in Texas interviewing for a job at nearby Prairie View AM University, a historically black college