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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]
By March 26, 2020, the United States, with the world's third-largest population, surpassed China and Italy as the country with the world's highest number of confirmed cases. [86] By April 25, the U.S. had more than 905,000 confirmed coronavirus cases and nearly 52,000 deaths, giving it a mortality rate around 5.7 percent.
Data from the United States and elsewhere shows that minorities, especially black people, have been infected and killed at a disproportionate rate to white people. Research in the UK has also demonstrated how other structural issues have intersected with COVID-19 to create a damaging cycle affecting black and minority ethnic populations. [2]
English: Population pyramid of the United States by race-ethnicity in 2020 Note: White, Black etc. are the Non-Hispanic populations as such. For example, Whites in this instance is relating to Non-Hispanic Whites. Other includes Native Hawaiian's and American Indians
As of 2020, White people numbered 235,411,507 or 71% of the population, including people who identified as white in combination with another race. People who identified as white alone (including Hispanic whites) numbered 204,277,273 or 61.6% of the population, while non-Latino whites made up 57.8% of the country's population.
By late November 2019, coronavirus disease 2019 had broken out in Wuhan, China. [2]As reported in Clinical Infectious Diseases on November 30, 2020, 7,389 blood samples collected between December 13, 2019, and January 17, 2020, by the American Red Cross from normal donors in nine states (California, Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington and Wisconsin ...
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a report on May 5, 2015, relating to the general status and causes of deaths of Hispanic population in the United States. The report utilized mortality indicators and national health surveillance of Hispanic populations compared to their White counterparts to explore the possibility of ...
Own work, data taken from National Population by Characteristics: 2010-2019, 1st Jan 2020 edition under Monthly Postcensal Resident Population plus Armed Forces Overseas from the U.S Census Bureau: Author: Tweedle