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Edwards creating task force on virus's racial disparities

by Associated Press
| April 11, 2020 12:03 AM

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana will try to combat the racial disparities in coronavirus deaths with a task force aimed at educating at-risk minority communities about the virus's risks and at conducting long-term research about how to address underlying health gaps between blacks and whites in the state, Gov. John Bel Edwards announced Friday.

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