COVID-19 pandemic has hit those who are poor and those who are not white harder than others, nearly a year into the health crisis, we still don’t have a clear picture of just how much harder it’s hitting racialized communities.Instead, we have to make educated guesses based on how hard the virus has hit certain neighbourhoods.
Community groups frustrated Quebec won’t collect race-based coronavirus data “In the Côte-des-Neiges borough, there are significant members of the Black community living in that borough, and it has been one of the hardest-hit boroughs (in Montreal),” Sharon Nelson, vice-president of the Jamaica Association of Montreal, said via Zoom.Advocates argue that race-based data on who is getting COVID-19, and who is needing.