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Location. This is 40 minutes. Gov. Cooper good afternoon, everybody. As of today our state has 31,966 confirmed case, 659 people are in the hospital, and 960 people have died from covid19. I want to thank you for joining me for the national day of mourning on monday. We continue to pray for those who have lost loved ones to this virus. Before the murder of george floyd, and before the country heard yet again the cries for Racial Equity and justice, we already knew that covid19 was disproportionately impacting communities of color. In North Carolina, africanamericans make up approximately 22 of the population. As of june 1, they account for 30 of the confirmed covid19 cases. Nd 34 of covid19 deaths. Latinx people are just 10 of the population yet they make up 39 of covid19 confirmed cases. These statistics are alarming. And they are not acceptable. I want to be clear that theres nothing inthornte black or brown people that makes them more susceptible to severe covid19 illness. The data

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