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produced a brief but useful compendium of published research on the multifarious ways in which COVID-19 has affected the Black community in the U.S. 1,2 The State of Black America and COVID-19: A Two Year Assessment was commissioned by the Black Coalition Against COVID, which included the four historically Black medical schools—Howard, Meharry, the Charles R. Drew University of Medical Science, and Morehouse. the a was five times greater the to times starting the comparative Black- White Black America” work finan-cial, impacts Black people. measure of COVID’s differential racial impact with long- term psychological, and the loss a parent fifteen 2021)