The Racial Time Bomb in the Covid-19 Crisis
(WorldNews Italy)

By Charles M. Blow Pre-existing health conditions leave one group particularly vulnerable. x CreditDesiree Rios for The New York Times Early Monday morning the email arrived. The subject line began, `ALARM AT THE GATE,` written in all caps. Someone had died. That is always what that phrasing means. The message came via a group email list maintained by the fraternity I joined in college some 30 years ago. A younger member, a rising chef in his 30s, had died. As the email read, he passed away `due to immune system complications resulting from contracting the Covid-19 virus as a Type-1 diabetic.` He was in Detroit, which has emerged as a hot spot for the virus. This was the third death I´d...