In Texas' largest county, a disproportionate share of new COVID-19 hospital patients — as high as 65% some weeks — have been Hispanic.
The pandemic's disproportionate toll can be seen in dozens of desperate postings on GoFundMe by Latino families in the Houston region, each pleading for help paying for COVID-19 medical bills or funeral expenses. Several said their loved ones lacked health insurance; others said the virus had hospitalized multiple members of the same family, leaving nobody healthy enough to earn money for rent.
"A lot of my Hispanic friends and family believed the coronavirus was a conspiracy until I actually lost my husband," Leonor said."Now they realize it's not ... after it cost me everything." Sometime in late June, he started feeling ill, with an aching throat that kept him awake at night. After a few days, he decided to get tested for COVID-19 at the Mexican Consulate in Houston. But the test results would take days. In the meantime, Benito continued to treat it as a common cold, drinking hot tea and taking cough syrup.
Data from the Houston Fire Department show a 45 percent jump from February to June in the number of cardiac arrest calls that ended with paramedics' declaring people dead upon their arrival. In March, the department recorded about 250 dead-on-arrival calls, the most of any month in the past two years up until that point. In June, the number grew to nearly 300.
This week, the hospital system ran an analysis of emergency room visits that confirmed those observations. More than 37 percent of nearly 9,000 patients who've tested positive for the virus at Memorial Hermann hospitals identified themselves as Hispanic, a greater share than in the hospital system's typical patient mix, McCarthy said.
After noticing the trends, Memorial Hermann launched Spanish-language education initiatives targeting majority Latino communities, including billboards and TV segments, urging residents to practice social distancing and to seek medical care when they begin to feel ill.
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