Overview: At the height of the pandemic, Black children were disproportionately hospitalized for the virus, while pregnant Black women are far more likely to die during childbirth than white women. Meanwhile, Black people accounted for an outsize share of COVID-19 deaths.

(WIB) – The data doesn’t lie: During the COVID-19 pandemic, Black people made up around 18% of all cases — and two out of every 10 deaths — despite being just 13% of the U.S. population. Black children who became infected were twice as likely as white kids to require hospitalization, and were more than five times as likely to be admitted to intensive care for treatment.

Meanwhile, Black women are nearly three times more likely to die during childbirth than white women, one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the

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