CORONAVIRUS LATEST: — U.S. death toll tops 45,000. — 759 new deaths reported in U.K. — New York City to freeze bodies instead of temporary burials. — NYC mayor outlines plan on testing, tracing.
11:11 a.m.: New data continues to show virus 'disproportionately' affecting black, Hispanic people
In Wisconsin, where the black population is 6%, the data showed that black people have accounted for 39% of the deaths and 25% of the cases -- a four-times higher share of cases and an over six-times higher share of deaths, according to the foundation. Kansas has a black population of 6%, but the data shows that black people have accounted for 33% of the deaths and 17% of the cases -- a three times higher share of cases and more than five-times higher share of deaths, the foundation reported.
Iowa and Wisconsin reported the largest relative differences, with a respective 17% of cases compared to a population of 6% and 12% of cases compared to a population of 7%. Mayor Bill de Blasio visits food distribution center at Kingsbridge Armory in New York amid the COVID-19 pandemic, April 18, 2020.
Nurses and doctors perform CPR on a patient with COVID-19 who went into cardiac arrest Monday, April 20, 2020, at St. Joseph's Hospital in Yonkers, N.Y. The emergency room team successfully revived the patient.However, he did say that the number of people admitted to the hospital with a suspected case of COVID-19 increased from 204 to 252.
A jogger runs past refrigerated tractor trailers, set up to serve as morgues, amid the coronavirus disease outbreak, outside Icahn Stadium on Randalls Island in New York City, April 20, 2020. French Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer presented the details of the plan with a parliamentary commission on Tuesday, explaining that children would return to school in staggered groups, with no more than 15 students allowed in each classroom.
In the first phase of the clinical trial, 200 healthy volunteers between the ages of 18 and 55 will receive one or more variants of the vaccine candidate, according to a press release from the Paul Ehrlich Institute in Germany. The infected children have been hospitalized as staff continues to monitor the health of those who tested negative. The facility has been disinfected and strict infection control measures have been put in place, the hospital said.A commuter wearing a face mask walks at a station square in Tokyo, Japan, on April 20, 2020.Staff members who have shown symptoms have already been sent home, though the hospital didn't specify how many.
The island city-state's health ministry on Wednesday confirmed another 1,016 newly diagnosed cases of COVID-19 as of 12 p.m. local time, bringing the total number to 10,141. So far, 11 people have died from the disease there.
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