New York Times sees a similar issue in the UK. It doesn't identify any environmental justice issue there, but it does raise the difference between increased rate-of-infection and increased rate-of-death.
“The underlying health and social disparities that drive inequality in health and life expectancy have been there all along, and this virus has just laid them bare,” said Dr. Riyaz Patel, an associate professor of cardiology at University College London. “This pandemic has not been the great leveler. It’s been the great magnifier, as it were.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/07/world/europe/coronavirus-uk-black-britons.html
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Date: 2020-May-07, Thursday 06:54 pm (UTC)“The underlying health and social disparities that drive inequality in health and life expectancy have been there all along, and this virus has just laid them bare,” said Dr. Riyaz Patel, an associate professor of cardiology at University College London. “This pandemic has not been the great leveler. It’s been the great magnifier, as it were.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/07/world/europe/coronavirus-uk-black-britons.html