The income inequality, already recognized as a significant social issue in this country, has now become a survival inequality. Along with new drugs and vaccines to fight the virus, we need to rethink our health care delivery system to ensure adequate access to all.
Income inequality is an overblown concern given the overall and dramatic increase in quality of life. See Steven Pinker's discussion of Gini coefficients in Enlightenment Now!. The discrepancy in survival among different ethnicity with covid-19 infection is quite possibly unrelated to differences in access to care or quality of care or differences of wealth (unless you automatically assume worse health with less wealth and even then it doesn't drill down on what is actually increasing the mortality numbers).
