[The NewsHouse]: Worth a Shot

COVID-19 is proven to have larger impacts on racial minorities, causing higher rates of cases, hospitalization, and death.

Despite a positive trend in overall numbers, there is an alarming pattern within the data about COVID-19’s impact on racial minority communities. The number of vaccines administered to people of color, as well as higher percentages of confirmed cases and deaths within these communities, reflects this unbalanced trend.

This is my senior capstone at the Newhouse School for a dual major in newspaper and online journalism. I worked closely with my capstone advisor, Professor Jon Glass, on this story and talked to a dozen locals and experts on this issue virtually during the pandemic.