Dr. Fauci Speaks About COVID-19's Disproportionate Impact On Latinx Community

[TexasTowelie]

Dr. Anthony Fauci spoke at a webinar Thursday hosted by the Texas Association of Mexican American Chambers of Commerce where he discussed the disproportionate impact that COVID-19 has had on the Latinx community and other people of color.

The U.S. death toll exceeded 200,000 deaths this week.

“The United States has been hit harder than any other country in the world with almost seven million cases,” Fauci said.

He added there are about 40,000 new infections every day throughout the country and that there is a “big disparity in increased incidence of infection and increased incidences of complications among minorities.”

“These bars show the rate of hospitalization per 100,000 population,” Fauci said, showing CDC data on the webinar. “Take a look at Hispanic/Latino, 348. Compare that to White/Non-Hispanic, 75.”

Read more: https://www.tpr.org/news/2020-09-24/dr-fauci-speaks-about-covid-19s-disproportionate-impact-on-latinx-community

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. I'm going to guess that they have far higher numbers

of people in high risk groups, such as obese, or diabetic, or whatever.

I am NOT blaming them, don't get me wrong. But the risk factors are huge.

[Amishman]

2. That appears to be the case, plus I'll add geography as a factor

Diabetes rates are lowest with non-hispanic whites
https://www.diabetes.org/resources/statistics/statistics-about-diabetes

Obesity follows a similar pattern though asians are lower than non-hispanic whites this time (by a lot)
https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html

African Americans have significantly higher rates of hypertension as well.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db289.htm

Geographic distribution of our minority populations is probably a factor as well.
Cities are more diverse. High population density makes for easier viral spread. Covid also was in the cities first, so longer timeline to raise the number of cases in those communities.

[JI7]

3. Blacks and Hispanics also tend to work more in service jobs that involve regular contact with

strangers througout the day . And these are jobs that have to usually be done on location unlike office type work that is more likely to be done from home.

I think the early numbers especially had to do with people in these jobs. Like that bus driver in the early days talking about some woman coughing on him. And maybe just weeks later he had caught covid and died.

[tanyev]

4. We weren't 'hit harder'.

We have corrupt and incompetent leadership at the federal level and in many states who aren't doing jack squat to get this under control.