Van Jones: I’m someone Covid-19 could easily kill. Here is what I’m doing about it – CNN

If the African American community is going to beat this virus -- and create a pandemic-resistant black community -- we are going to have to make big changes in both our public systems and our personal lives.

This virus is especially lethal to African Americans because it is -- in effect -- a pandemic jumping on top of multiple, pre-existing epidemics that were already ravaging the black community. Diseases like hypertension, diabetes, asthma and obesity make the virus far more deadly. And African American communities have those illnesses in numbers that are way out of proportion.

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Van Jones: I'm someone Covid-19 could easily kill. Here is what I'm doing about it - CNN