Collected Item: “Covid-19 narrows long-standing Latino mortality advantage, study finds”
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Covid-19 narrows long-standing Latino mortality advantage, study finds
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This is a news story from NBC News by Nicole Acevedo. Latinos have been shown to have lower mortality rates compared to non-Hispanic whites, where they live an average of three extra years. This changed with the virus. In a study published by the Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion, COVID-19 has been shown to kill Latinos 65 or older at 2.1 times the rate of whites in 2020. This number decreased slightly in 2021, which was at 1.6 times the rate of whites. So far this year, it has been at 1.2 times the rate of death. In total, COVID has killed 124,000 Latinos since the start of the pandemic in the United States, which accounts for 17% of deaths. The reason the Latino death rate is high is debated, but some say it is because Latinos in the United States are less likely to have access to quality healthcare or have jobs that would expose them to the virus more often.
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study, death, Latino, White, mortality rate, Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion, Syracuse University, healthcare, ASU, HST580
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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/covid-19-narrows-long-standing-latino-mortality-advantage-study-finds-rcna28600
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Nicole Acevedo
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2022-05-12