Similar numbers are emerging elsewhere. In New York, the epicenter for the coronavirus in the United States, the highest concentration of infections has been in  low-income neighborhoods with big immigrant populations. In Wisconsin's Milwaukee County, 81 percent of people killed by the virus have been Black, according to a  ProPublica investigation, though just 26 percent of the county's population identifies as Black. In Michigan, where Black people make up 12 percent of the population,  40 percent of those killed have been Black, many of them in Detroit.

The novel coronavirus is infecting people of all races and income levels, but it is also exposing familiar patterns of racial gaps in health outcomes that stem from systemic discrimination in access to employment, housing, and medical care. Black people are  more likely than white people to use public transportation to travel to jobs that can't be worked from home, making social distancing more difficult. They're also less likely to have health insurance, and more likely to have preexisting conditions like asthma that make them particularly vulnerable to the virus. In Chicago,  health experts noted that Black people are more likely to have diabetes, high blood pressure, and respiratory problems, conditions

that can stem from and be exacerbated by poverty, environmental pollution, and limited access to doctors. "

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A divided three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals threw out a lower court ruling blocking the ban - one of a series of recent abortion curbs enacted by conservative-led states on the grounds abortion is not a medically necessary procedure. The order builds on a temporary stay of the District Court ruling that the 5th Circuit issued on March 31. "