Demographics Of Coronavirus Cases

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released data on Wednesday revealed that some racial disparities in coronavirus infection nationally, reports abcNews. According to the reports, although breakdown of infected population included “59% white, 14% Latino and 18% black, 45% of hospitalized coronavirus patients were white and 8% were Latino, while 33% were black, ‘suggesting that black populations might be disproportionately affected by COVID-19’.”

High COVID-19 Infection On Blacks

It is reported in the news quoting Dr Anthony Fauci that “the the disproportionate effects on the black community as an exacerbation of a health disparity. The same conditions that are far too prevalent in black communities also lead to a bad outcome with the coronavirus.”

We have known literally forever that diseases like diabetes, hypertension, obesity and asthma are disproportionately afflicting the minority populations, particularly the African-Americans.

Dr. Anthony Fauci (source: abcNews)

The New York Times writes referring CDC report that ‘the infected black people were hospitalized at a higher rate than whites’.

Older people infected with the virus were more likely to be hospitalized; men were more likely to endure severe cases than women; and black people were hospitalized at a higher rate than whites. The highest overall percentage of hospitalized patients were white (45 percent), the percentage of black patients (33 percent) was much higher than the percentage of African-Americans in the population as a whole. In the geographical areas covered by the study, 59 percent of the population is white, and 18 percent is black, “suggesting that black populations might be disproportionately affected by Covid-19.”

Source: The New York Times

In Minnesota majority of COVID-19 infected persons are white (73%) and black comprise only 8%, according to the MDH website.

New CDC Guidelines

The Times reports that on Wednesday the CDC has issued new guidelines for employee that are are classified ‘essential’ by their employers “who have had an exposure but remain asymptomatic should adhere to the following practices prior to and during their work shift”. Full CDC guidelines is found in this link.

Latest Updates on COVID-19

The Star Tribune reports that “88 newly confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Thursday with 11 deaths — the highest one-day deaths total in the state since the pandemic started”. Nationwide, there were 33,323 new infections were reported on Wednesday alone with 1,922 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins Coronavirus tally.

Coronavirus Watch

The MDH latest tally (as of April 9, 11 a.m.), the confirmed case in Minnesota is 1,242 (out of 32,294 tested) with 50 deaths. According to Johns Hopkins database (as of April 9, 2:30 p.m.) there are 452,582 confirmed covid19 infection with 16,129 deaths. Globally the covid19 virus has infected 1,579,690 with 94,567 deaths.

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