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The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unequal impact on different racial and ethnic groups in the United States, resulting in new disparities of health outcomes as well as exacerbating existing health and economic disparities. The pandemic struck the United States in March 2020, causing almost 2 million known cases by June 1, 2020. [1]
The true COVID-19 death toll in the United States would therefore be higher than official reports, as modeled by a paper published in The Lancet Regional Health – Americas. [3] One way to estimate COVID-19 deaths that includes unconfirmed cases is to use the excess mortality , which is the overall number of deaths that exceed what would ...
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Daily non-repatriated COVID-19 cases in the US by state (January 1, 2023 – May 12, 2023) Date West Midwest South Northeast Territories Date Confirmed Deaths AK AZ CA CO HI ID MT NM NV OR UT WA WY IA IL IN KS MI MN MO ND NE OH OK SD WI AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC SC TN TX VA WV CT DC DE MA MD ME NH NJ NY PA RI VT GU MP PR VI Daily Total Daily ...
In a study in Michigan in 2020 regarding COVID-19, it is shown that Black people are 3.6 times more likely to die due to COVID-19. [19] In the United States, the mental health of African Americans has been shown to be negatively impacted by systemic racism, contributing to increased risk of mortality from substance use disorders.
In the United States, reproductive health disparities exist between white and minority women. Historical abuses and experimentation on Black women by medical professionals has led to greater distrust of the medical community. [204] Additionally, current racial biases held by medical personnel affect medical care of Black and minority women. [205]
By November 2020, with 13 million cases in total that year, hospitals throughout the country had been overwhelmed with record numbers of COVID-19 patients. [1] Hospitals faced a crisis-level shortage of beds and staff to provide adequate care for patients. States such as Iowa had no more available beds, considering their situation at crisis ...
At peak, as many as 25,000 prisoners across the United States tested positive for COVID-19 in a single week. [60] By June 2021 more than 500,000 prisoners had tested positive for COVID-19; [60] and as of December 2021, about 34 of every 100 people in US prisons had been infected with COVID-19, almost 4-times the rate of the national population.