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• Stop joking that black people are immune to coronavirus

  Mar 16, 2020 1:00 pm by CityLabIllinois in the News
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  CityLab (March 14) U of I professor Rana Hogarth bristles at memes suggesting black people are impervious to Covid-19. These racist beliefs hearken back to the 18th-century yellow fever disaster.

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