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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]
From 2019 to 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic had contributed to approximately 61% of the decrease in life expectancy in the United States. [125] While increases in mortality from unintentional injuries , heart disease , homicide , and diabetes contributed to 11.7%, 5.8%, 2.9%, and 2.8% of the decrease in life expectancy from 2019 to 2020 ...
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
The United States population grew by 3.3 million people this year, the highest increase in more than two decades that was primarily driven by immigration, according to data released this week by ...
The United States has a racially and ethnically diverse population. [1] At the federal level, race and ethnicity have been categorized separately. The most recent United States census recognized five racial categories (White, Black, Native American/Alaska Native, Asian, and Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander), as well as people who belong to two or more of the racial categories.
An October 2020 poll from the Central European Institute of Asian Studies [266] had more than half of Swedish respondents agreeing that COVID-19 spread due to Chinese people eating bats and other wild animals, which was a higher percentage than the other 12 European countries surveyed.