Covid-19 is known to be particularly risky for parents. For many minorities, the disease kills them at the prime of their lives.
Among people in the U.S. who have died between their mid-40s and mid-70s since the pandemic began, the virus is responsible for about 9% of deaths. For Latino people who died in that age range, the virus killed nearly 25%, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of death certificate data collected by federal authorities.
The data show how deadly coronavirus deaths affect many minorities, a sharp difference that provides a clear picture of the pandemic’s major impact on vulnerable populations.
This is especially true for Latino people, in part because their high representation in jobs ranging from health care providers to meat packages makes it harder for them to escape the virus, and because they often have less access to care, according to public health experts.
“Latinos tend to be very, very poorly connected to the formal medical and public health infrastructure,” said David Hayes-Bautista, director of the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture at the University of California, the medical school. of Los Angeles. As a consequence, the population has historically been hit hard by communicable diseases, he said.
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