Gov. Newsom: California is analyzing COVID-19 data on basis of race, first update released
(WorldNews Environment)

Gov. Gavin Newsom said the California Department of Public Health has begun gathering data from counties that allows officials to analyze COVID-19 data on the basis of race. During a Wednesday press briefing, Newsom said the state now has information on the race and ethnicities of close to 40 percent of the 16,957 people who have tested positive for the novel coronavirus in California. `We have 6,306 total cases that we´ve been able to analyze on the basis of race,` Newsom said. `Looking at the total number of positive cases from a racial and ethnic lens and the...