Covid-19 Deaths Strike Early for Many Minorities
Covid-19 is known to be particularly risky for the elderly. For many minorities, the disease is killing them in the prime of their lives.
Among people in the U.S. who died between their mid-40s and mid-70s since the pandemic began, the virus is responsible for about 9% of deaths. For Latino people who died in that age range, the virus has killed nearly 25%, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of death-certificate data collected by federal authorities.
The data show how deaths from the coronavirus are skewing younger for many minorities, a stark disparity that offers a clear picture of the pandemic’s outsize impact on vulnerable populations.
This is especially the case for Latino people, in part because their high representation in jobs ranging from health aides to meatpacking have made it harder for them to dodge the virus, and because they often have poorer access to care, according to public-health experts.
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