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Oschsner study finds 3 out of 4 hospitalized coronavirus patients were African-American

Posted at 7:41 AM, Jun 02, 2020
and last updated 2020-06-02 08:41:55-04

African-American coronavirus patients made up three-fourths of those hospitalized in Ochsner Health System hospitals.

This is according to a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

But according to our partners at The Advocate, the study found that race wasn't a factor in mortality when researchers controlled for severity of sickness and factors including age.

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