Teaneck and Ridgewood are towns in New Jersey that are just minutes from each other. Yet when it came to the COVID pandemic, they were worlds apart when it came to illness and death.
As of April 29, the latest date for which data is available, Teaneck, a predominantly Black and Hispanic community has seen 22.9% of residents contract COVID-19 and 0.34% die of the virus.David Muir reports on the more than 250,000 children who have lost parents or caregivers to COVID-19 -- their challenges, their triumphs, and the way they keep the memories alive.While Teaneck's death rate is lower than the national average of 1.
The report found that collectively, counties with larger Black communities experienced about 32 more deaths per 100,000 than counties that were not predominantly Black. Similar disparities are seen even in majority-white neighborhoods. Black people make up only 2% of Ridgewood residents, but 8.5% of the town's COVID deaths, according to the Ridgewood Health Department.
"It became clear in our area that certain demographics were being hit much harder than others," Saggar said."It was disproportionately people of disadvantaged backgrounds, and minorities were disproportionately represented" among COVID-19 patients at Holy Name.
In May 2021, 44.2% of Black Americans were fully vaccinated compared to 55.8% of white Americans, CDC data shows. This gap has since closed dramatically to 82.9% of Black Americans fully vaccinated compared to 83.5% of whites as of March 2022. "We would have never gotten to the great numbers [of vaccinated people] that we did if we didn't make concerted efforts to reach people," Rice said. About 89% of Teaneck residents have had at least one dose of the vaccine.
"That was, for some, a bit of a struggle," he told ABC News."They didn't fully understand the severity of the situation. But my people have been with me for decades and they trust me, and I told them I'm not asking them to do anything that my family has not done."
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