Though data gaps remain, the pattern is clear: Communities of color are being hit disproportionately by COVID-19.
"If we don't know who is sick, we're not going to know in six months, 12 months, 18, however long it takes, who should be getting the vaccination. We're not going to know where we should be directing our personal protective equipment to make sure that health care workers are protected," he says.NPR's analysis finds that in 32 states plus Washington D.C., blacks are dying at rates higher than their proportion of the population.
Their analysis shows that while disproportionately black counties account for only 30% of the U.S. population, they were the location of 56% of COVID-19 deaths. And even disproportionately black counties with above-average wealth and health care coverage bore an unequal share of deaths. "In the early stages, when we were noticing increased Latino hospitalization at our own hospital and we felt that no one was paying attention and that people were just happy that San Francisco was crushing the curve," she says."It felt horrendous. It felt as if people were dismissing those lives. ... It took people longer to realize what was going on."
The disproportionate share of deaths isn't as stark for Latinos as it is for African-Americans. Fernandez says that's likely because the U.S. Latino population
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