[PapaBear3625]

Overweight people are more likely to have diabetes, which increases your odds of death from COVID-19

Blacks have high levels of obesity.

https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html

Blacks are also more likely to die of heart disease, another COVID co-morbidity

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus/spotlight/HeartDiseaseSpotlight_2019_0404.pdf

[polymuser]

Obesity, diabetes, hypertension, stroke, smoking, lack of exercise...comorbidity factors that are higher in the black general population than the whites’ (go search on it if you doubt me; I’ve done so).

Then add in poorer social distancing practices.

MI Gov. Whitmer is OCD Karen on steroids.