Town of Saco issued the following announcement on June 22.
No other state has such a wide gap – more than 25 percentage points – between the size of the Black population and that community's share of infections.
Maine now has the nation’s largest racial disparity in coronavirus cases, with statistics showing that members of the state’s small but growing Black communities are contracting COVID-19 at a rate more than 20 times that of white residents.
Maine has among the lowest COVID-19 infection rates in the country on a per-capita basis. But the picture is dramatically different for Black residents, a growing number of whom are recent immigrants with lower incomes, more limited access to health care and less job security even before the pandemic.
And this is no statistical anomaly caused by Maine’s small minority population.
Original source here.
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