Table 4.
Associations of race and Latinx subgroup composition with COVID-19 cases in counties adjusting all risk factors combined, by region§
| Northeast |
Midwest |
South |
West |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IRR (95% CI) | IRR (95% CI) | IRR (95% CI) | IRR (95% CI) | |
| Percentage of Blacks | 1.016∗ [1.000, 1.033] | 1.057‡ [1.027, 1.089] | 1.026‡ [1.020, 1.032] | 1.060∗ [1.002, 1.120] |
| Percentage of Asians | 0.974 [0.949, 1.001] | 0.931 [0.843, 1.028] | 0.966 [0.917, 1.018] | 0.963 [0.927, 1.000] |
| Percentage of Mexicans | 1.032 [0.974, 1.093] | 1.016 [0.993, 1.039] | 0.985 [0.968, 1.001] | 1.008 [0.978, 1.039] |
| Percentage of Puerto Ricans | 1.067‡ [1.030, 1.106] | 1.207∗ [1.032, 1.412] | 0.958∗ [0.918, 1.000] | 0.877 [0.539, 1.426] |
| Percentage of Cubans | 0.882 [0.763, 1.019] | 1.213 [0.894, 1.647] | 0.957 [0.914, 1.001] | 0.567 [0.185, 1.743] |
| Percentage of Central Americans | 1.130† [1.038, 1.231] | 1.194∗ [1.014, 1.405] | 1.098† [1.035, 1.165] | 0.961 [0.811, 1.139] |
| Percentage of South Americans | 1.005 [0.916, 1.102] | 0.670‡ [0.536, 0.836] | 0.885 [0.779, 1.004] | 1.367 [0.800, 2.338] |
| Percentage of Other Latinx-origin | 1.031 [0.990, 1.073] | 0.760† [0.621, 0.930] | 1.059 [0.922, 1.217] | 0.995 [0.962, 1.029] |