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
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.