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New reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that blacks, Latin Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans are hospitalized with COVID-19 at nearly four times the rate of non-Hispanic whites.
The agency said that between March 1 and November 7, it had received reports of more than 70,000 laboratory-confirmed hospitalizations associated with COVID-19, of which 67,259 include data on race and ethnicity.
Of these cases, the agency said that by looking at “overall age-adjusted rates by race and ethnicity,” it found that the rate of hospitalizations among Hispanics or Latinos was about 4.2 times the rate among non-Hispanic whites.
“The rates for non-Hispanic American Indians or Alaska Natives and non-Hispanic blacks were approximately 4.1 and 3.9 times, respectively, those for non-Hispanic whites,” the agency said.
The CDC said in its report that non-Hispanic whites and non-Hispanic blacks “accounted for the highest proportions of hospitalizations” reported to COVID-NET, a monitoring system that collects data on confirmed hospitalizations associated with COVID- 19.
The new report follows a study published earlier this month which found that blacks and Asians in the United States and Britain were at a higher risk of coronavirus infection than their white counterparts.
The study, which examined the charts of millions of patients, found that blacks were twice as likely to die from the disease as whites in both countries.
The study found that Asians were 1.5 times more likely to be infected with coronavirus than whites. The study also found that the population was more likely to be sent to intensive care and die from the disease.
The report comes as the country as a whole has seen an increase in COVID-19 cases, in addition to an increase in hospitalizations, in recent days as the country enters colder months.
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