COVID-19, Grief and the Black Widowed Woman Zoom event (To be recorded)
Fri, Jul 31
|BWWE Facebook Group
As National Minority Mental Health Awareness month winds down, we would like to close it out with a special online event about COVID-10. This event will be held in our private Facebook group: Facebook.com/groups/Blackwomenwidowsempowered
Time & Location
Jul 31, 2020, 8:00 PM EDT
BWWE Facebook Group
About the Event
As National Minority Mental Health Awareness month winds down, we would like to close it out with a special online event about COVID-10. You asked and we listened. If you have a few moments Friday evening, join us for this live discussion. Can't make it? No worries! The event will be recorded!
We realize that so much information has been communicated to the public about this deadly virus but we thought that you would want to be aware of these statistics about the effects COVID-19 has on minorities:
* Nationally, African-American deaths from COVID-19 are nearly two times greater than would be expected based on their share of the population. In four states, the rate is three or more times greater.
* In 42 states plus Washington D.C., Hispanics/Latinos make up a greater share of confirmed cases than their share of the population. In eight states, it's more than four…