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| CDC data highlight racial disparities in spread, scope of COVID-19 pandemic |
| 2020-07-11 |
| h/t Instapundit [UPI] - More than 34 percent of Hispanic and Latin Americans who died from COVID-19 across the United States were younger than 65, an analysis released Friday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found. About 30 percent of black Americans who died from COVID-19 also were younger than 65, compared to just over 13 percent of white Americans younger than 65 who died from the disease, CDC said. Just over 20 percent of all COVID-19 deaths in the United States have been adults under age 65, the agency said. ...In all, Hispanic and Latin Americans accounted for one in four deaths from COVID-19, the CDC found, even though they constitute just under 19 percent of the U.S. population, according to census data. ...African Americans made up about 20 percent of all COVID-19 deaths, even though they account for just over 13 percent of the U.S. population based on census data, CDC said. The latest CDC findings on the impact of COVID-19 are based on an analysis of data through May 18. At that time, more than 1.3 million cases of the disease were confirmed across the United States, resulting in 83,000 deaths, the agency said. Through Friday afternoon, more than 3.1 million confirmed cases and more than 133,000 deaths were reported in this country, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #6 If they want to analyse racial disparity sans economic influence they should checkrates in va system. |
| Posted by: Penguin_of_the_Desert 2020-07-11 20:19 |
| #5 At least in Texas an anomalously large fraction of hospitalization and deaths are in a few large cities and the Mexican border counties. One wonders if Mexico’s sickest are coming here for care. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2020-07-11 20:08 |
| #4 Remember, in the beginning of lockdown-I, we saw here these videos of quarantine rules completely disregarded in inner cities? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-07-11 17:39 |
| #3 Comparing Hispanic and black populations to white in the U.S., how many had co-morbid gunshot and knife wounds, and how many had co-morbid drug overdoses? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2020-07-11 17:30 |
| #2 To answer my own question: Efforts to examine SARS-CoV-2 transmission and COVID-19-associated deaths among different racial and ethnic groups “could lead to targeted, community-level, mortality prevention initiatives,” CDC researchers wrote. “These campaigns could encourage social distancing and the need for wearing cloth face coverings in public settings,” they wrote. But the summary posted overlooks some interesting conclusions: The CDC analysis also showed that, as of May 18, approximately 60 percent of those who died from COVID-19 in the United States were male. More than 75 percent of those who died have had at least one underlying medical condition, including 83 percent of those age 65 or younger, the CDC said. Heart disease was the most common underlying health condition among COVID-19 deaths, at 61 percent, followed by diabetes at 40 percent, chronic kidney disease at 21 percent, and chronic lung disease at 19 percent, the agency said. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2020-07-11 15:07 |
| #1 Except you get some of the "confirmed" cases are really "presumed". So what are we supposed to do with this new-found "information"? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2020-07-11 15:02 |