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Goal of COVID-19 testing is to protect Richmonders and their families, by Mayor Levar M. Stoney
The COVID-19 pandemic is wreaking havoc across the globe and hitting the United States especially hard. And the hardest hit racial demographic in the U.S. is African-Americans, who are both contracting the disease and dying from the disease at a much higher rate than any other group.