Coronavirus antibody rates among black and Hispanic people in New York City were more than double the rates of white people at the beginning of the pandemic, a new study suggests. Researchers from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene found more than 30 percent African-American and Latino residents had antibodies against … Read more
Coronavirus vaccines meant for rural Hispanic and black communities in Palm Beach County are instead being allocated for wealthy, white Floridians. According to the most recent data from the U.S. Census Bureau, Latinos account for 23.4 percent of all county residents and African American account for 19.8 percent. However, as of Wednesday, just five percent … Read more
In New York City, black people make up nearly a quarter of the population, but only 11 percent of the people who have had COVID-19 shots. Latinx people make up 29 percent of the population, but have only received 15 percent of the shots available, according to data from Bloomberg. And when a mass vaccination … Read more
Americans who live mainly black and Hispanic neighborhoods have higher coronavirus infection and death rates compared to those living in majority white neighborhoods, a new study suggests. Researchers found that U.S. counties with just one-fifth of a black population had a 2.4 times lower risk of contracting COVID-19 percent and a two times risk of … Read more
Alabama: The health department has said it will monitor vaccinations administered to understand current saturation by county based on available information on vaccine distributed and by race. Communicators will confer with local entities to help ensure equitable access to immunization sites from this date. Alaska: The state is yet to announced who will receive the vaccine … Read more
Alabama: The health department has said it will monitor vaccinations administered to understand current saturation by county based on available information on vaccine distributed and by race. Communicators will confer with local entities to help ensure equitable access to immunization sites from this date. Alaska: The state is yet to announced who will receive the vaccine … Read more
American minorities have been hit particularly hard by COVID-19 – and the share of Hispanic people dying of the disease in the US is only growing, a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report suggests. In May, Hispanic Americans accounted for 16.3 percent of coronavirus deaths in the US. By August, that number … Read more
Hispanic employees accounted for nearly 75% off all coronavirus caught at work in Utah – making them three times more likely to catch it than white workers, CDC finds The CDC looked at more than 11,000 coronavirus cases throughout Utah between March 6 and June 5 Of that total, 12% were associated with one of … Read more
Black and Hispanic coronavirus patients had lung damage that was 1.5 times worse than the infection’s attacks on white Americans, X-rays reveal Researchers looked at chest X-rays of 326 patients hospitalized with coronavirus between March 27 and April 10 Patients were given mRALE scores based on how severely the disease had impacted their lungs White patients … Read more
White woman is caught on camera spewing racist remarks at Hispanic man and telling him he is ‘ruining America’ during altercation in a Georgia Walmart parking lot Johnny Gonzalez was subjected to a racist tirade by a white woman who claimed he ran a stop sign in Cedartown, Georgia The unidentified woman tells the man … Read more