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San José City Hall, Santa Clara County, California – Photo: Los Angeles Times
Daily News Los Angeles Times (US) On December 31, 2020, it reported that Vietnamese Americans and Filipino Americans are affected by the COVID-19 epidemic more severely than other Asian-American groups in Silicon Valley, the southern part of the San area. Bay. Francisco, California, West America.
Specifically, Dr. Sara Cody, a health worker from Santa Clara County in California, said the rate of new infections among Vietnamese-Americans and Filipino-Americans is increasing faster than other Asian-American groups.
From June 1 to December 3, 2020, Vietnamese Americans accounted for 28% of COVID-19 cases among Asian-American groups in Santa Clara County. They are known to comprise 19% of all Asian Americans in this county.
Meanwhile, Filipino Americans, 13% of all Asian Americans in Santa Clara, accounted for 21% of all these infections during the same period.
Among groups, Latin Americans had the highest rate of COVID-19 cases per capita in Santa Clara County, with more than 4,000 cases out of every 100,000 Latinos last spring, summer and fall. 6 times the rate in white people.
Chinese, Indian, Korean, and Japanese Americans have a lower incidence of COVID-19 among Asian populations. For all Asian Americans, there are nearly 800 COVID-19 cases out of every 100,000 Asian Americans.
The United States is currently the largest COVID-19 outbreak in the world, with more than 20.6 million cases and more than 356,000 deaths. In particular, the state of California is the leading state in the number of infections, with 2,345,657 cases and 26,294 deaths (according to updates from the page Worldometers at 2:00 pm 2-1-2021).
On New Year’s Eve to welcome the new year on December 31, 2020, Dai Crowns 4 “The health care system in Santa Clara County is on edge,” he said in California. Only about 30 ICU beds are empty and many patients have to wait for their beds.
However, some positive news was also noted. Among them was that Santa Clara County received at least 95,000 doses of vaccine from both Pfizer / BioNTech and Moderna.
