In France, study shows virus hit African immigrants hardest

LE PECQ, France (AP) — A new study from the French government’s statistics agency shows that death rates doubled among immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa and tripled in the Paris region at the height of the country’s coronavirus outbreak. The research published Tuesday exposes the pandemic’s punishing impact on France’s Black immigrants and other systematically overlooked minorities. It is the first study that cross-references deaths that occurred when intensive car