Frustrations grow over incomplete racial data on COVID-19 cases, deaths

Almost a dozen states are not reporting the race of COVID-19 deaths, frustrating lawmakers and advocates who argue the missing data will hamper the coronavirus response.Nearly three months after the first COVID-19 case was confirmed in the U.S., 10 states and five territories have not released racial data on coronavirus deaths, according to the COVID Tracking Project and the Antiracist Research & Policy Center.In many states that are…