The CDC-led team also found that cases among American Indians and Alaska Natives were younger in age.
The report contained data on 340,059 Covid-19 cases confirmed between January 22 and July 3 from over 23 states. The researchers – from the CDC and other institutions in the United States – took a close look at racial and ethnicity information for those cases.
Among American Indians and Alaska natives, there were 594 Covid cases per 100,000 people. That compares to, among White people, just 169 cases per 100,000, the team reported Wednesday.
Data were limited to cases involving information about race and ethnicity. The study also only compared coronavirus rates among American Indians and Alaska Natives with white people and not with other groups, because the pandemic also affected black and Spanish communities at disproportionate rates.
The CDC said Wednesday that it has provided more than $ 200 million in Covid-19 funding to U.S. Indian and Alaska Native communities to support pandemic preparedness and responsive efforts, such as surveillance, laboratory capacity and infection control.
Covid is also affected by social problems, he said, and families have been hit hard by the pandemic for many generations.
“There are whole families who are infected in it, or have multiple deaths in the family at the same time. And that will create a trauma that will last a long time and necessitate a need for mental health services,” he said. .
“We can not return in satisfaction,” Sequist said, adding the circumstances creating the crisis “existed long before Covid, and will continue for a long time, unless we take decisive action today.”
CNgie’s Maggie Fox contributed to this report.
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