As coronavirus cases barrel past 25 million nationwide, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and member of the Coronavirus Task Force, spoke with the Colors podcast, hosted by JJ Green and Chris Core, about the outsized impact of the virus on the African-American community. Read on to find out his dire warning, and to get through this pandemic at your healthiest, don't miss these Sure Signs You've Already Had Coronavirus.

"The likelihood that African-Americans will get infected versus whites or others—and importantly when—and if they do get infected the likelihood of their getting a serious outcome, more so than whites. And the answer is unfortunately, yes, to both because African-Americans, you'd never like to generalize, but it is true as a demographic group, as a whole, obviously, but many exceptions, but as a demographic group, their jobs that they have a generally more put them out there interacting sometimes without having the easy capability of physically separating, as opposed to me and you talking through a computer that as a demographic group, they are at higher risk of actually acquiring infection."