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Coronavirus killing mostly black people with high blood pressure and diabetes in Louisiana

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He says it is not clear why.

"Obviously this is a big disparity, and we're going to try to figure out what that is attributable to and what we can do about that as quickly as possible."


Meanwhile the state has released a list of the underlying health conditions associated with people who die from COVID-19.

While nationwide statistics are not available, Chicago reports 72 percent of coronavirus deaths are among African-Americans and Milwaukee reports more than half of cases there are in black people.