Table 1.
The Impact of COVID-19 on Minority Communities
| Risk for COVID-19 Infection, Hospitalization, and Death by Race/Ethnicity | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rate Ratios Compared to White, Non-Hispanic persons | American Indian or Alaska Native, Non-Hispanic persons | Asian, Non-Hispanic personsa | Black or African American, Non-Hispanic persons | Hispanic or Latino persons |
| Cases | 1.6x | 0.7x | 1.1x | 2.0x |
| Hospitalization | 3.5x | 1.0x | 2.8x | 3.0x |
| Death | 2.4x | 1.0x | 1.9x | 2.3x |
Table adapted from CDC data as of early November 2021 [7] (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/investigations-discovery/hospitalization-death-by-race-ethnicity.html)
aAsian, Non-Hispanic persons represent a disparate and heterogeneous ethnic minority; the nuances and subtleties among several subgroups of Asian Americans (Indian and Taiwanese at the top of the income ladder vs. Japanese, Korean, Hmong, and Vietnamese in the middle or Nepalese and Burmese at the bottom) escape the raw data from the CDC [8]