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North Carolina lacks critical racial data for a third of its COVID-19 cases. Here’s why.

By Hannah Critchfield American Indians account for 1 percent of the COVID-19 cases in the state, according to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services website, according to the U.S. Census, about 2 percent of North Carolinians identified as American Indian in the last census. But Gregory Richardson, executive director of the North […]