Disproportionate Black & Latino Covid Deaths
This weekend it was revealed that in Texas, more latinos and Blacks are being killed by covid in the prime of their live.
People in their 30’s and 40’s are dying of this disease in huge numbers and it is a direct result of the corrupt racism that is systemic in this city and state and country. Rest in peace to all those whose young lives were cut short unnecessarily. May we do better in the days, weeks and months to come:
“That has been the untold story of all the injustices that COVID-19 has highlighted,” said Erin Carlson, director of graduate public health programs at the University of Texas at Arlington. “The pandemic is taking people of color during the prime of their lives.”
In Texas, among those ages 25 to 64, the COVID-19 death rate for Hispanics is more than four times as high than that of non-Hispanic whites, a Dallas Morning News analysis of state health data found. Blacks in that age group are dying at more than twice the rate of whites. Similar trends hold true for Dallas County.
More than 4,200 Hispanics between ages 25 and 64 have died of COVID-19 in Texas. That works out to 74 deaths per 100,000 people. Meanwhile, more than 1,100 whites in that age group have died, which works out to 17 deaths per 100,000. The death rate for Blacks fell in between, at 40 for every 100,000.
(https://www.heraldmailmedia.com/news/nation/covid-19-s-untold-story-texas-blacks-and-latinos-are-dying-in-the-prime-of/article_d5617703-a788-5c20-a0d8-78926c9e41cb.html)
