Help Guides: National Hispanic Heritage Month: Coronavirus Impact

COVID-19 and Hispanic/Latinx Communities

Recent data show that communities of color are at much higher risk of being infected and dying from COVID-19. Below is a list of articles relevant to the impact of COVID-19 on Hispanic and Latinx American communities.

Health Disparities: Race and Hispanic Origin
Data from the CDC, last updated September 23, 2020.
Coronavirus and Latino Health Equity
From Salud America!, an organization dedicated to health equity for Latino Americans.
Coronavirus Case Rates and Death Rates for Latinos in the United States (August 20)
By Cliff Despres from Salud America!
New data finds Black and Hispanic Americans more likely to take precautions against coronavirus (August 10)
By Stella M. Rouse in The Washington Post.
Coronavirus Economic Downturn Has Hit Latinos Especially Hard (August 4)
By Jens Manuel Krogstad and Mark Hugo Lopez from the Pew Research Center
Puerto Rico, Still Reeling From Old Disasters, Is Slammed by Covid-19 (July 8, 2020)
From NY Times, by Alejandra Rosa and Frances Robles, July 8, 2020. "Puerto Rico has taken one of the country’s hardest economic hits."
The Fullest Look Yet at the Racial Inequity of Coronavirus (July 6)
By Richard A. Oppel Jr., Robert Gebeloff, K.K. Rebecca Lai, Will Wright and Mitch Smith of The New York Times.
For Latinos and Covid-19, Doctors Are Seeing an ‘Alarming’ Disparity (June 26)
By Miriam Jordan and Richard A. Oppel Jr. in The New York Times.
Why Racism, Not Race, Is a Risk Factor for Dying of COVID-19 (June 12, 2020)
By Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, June 12, 2020
NPR: What Do Coronavirus Racial Disparities Look Like State By State? (May 30)
CNN: Understanding Why Latinos are so hard hit by Covid-19 (May 18)
AARP: Blacks and Hispanics Hit Harder by the Coronavirus, Early US Data Show (May 8)
AARP: Las personas afroamericanas y los hispanos están siendo más afectados por el coronavirus (8 mayo)
Puerto Rico tops 2000 coronavirus cases, 100 deaths amid gradual reopening (May 7)
By Jim Wyss, Miami Herald, May 7, 2020
The incomplete coronavirus map — US territories left behind (April 15)
By Gretchen Sierra-Zorita, The Hill, April 15, 2020.
Puerto Rico extends lockdown to May to fight COVID-19 (April 11)
By Danica Coto, ABC News, April 11, 2020
Hispanic Community in NYC ‘Disproportionately’ Impacted by COVID-19 (April 8)
NBC New York Channel 4, April 8, 2020. Includes data showing Latinos have had the highest death rates in New York City, outpacing all other people of color and whites.
NYC Hispanics and Blacks dying of COVID-19 at twice the rate of whites, Asians (April 8)
By Yoav Gonen, Ann Choi and Josefa Velasquez, The City , NYC, April 8, 2020. Includes data indicating Latinos dying at the highest rates in NYC; also includes data by NYC boroughs.

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