On Thursday, a new one through UCLA’s Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture showed that coronavirus death rates among working-age Latinos in California have increased over the past 3 months. The researchers looked at 3 teams of Latinos between the ages of 18 and 69 between May 11 and August 11.
According to their findings, the death rate is highest among middle-aged Latinos, with 54. 73 deaths consistent with 100,000 people; This is about 25 times higher than the death rate for young adults. “Anything that threatens the stability of our economy, such as COVID-19 incursions into the working-age population, will need to be taken seriously,” said David E. Hayes-Bautista, a professor of fitness policy at UCLA’s Fielding School of Public Health and co-author of the report, said in a statement, “The virus is affecting the working-age population and the young Latino population is disproportionately represented. in this demographic. “
“As the coronavirus fatally makes its way into each and every nook and cranny of California’s population, the profiles of those who suffer from it are becoming clearer: they are the anonymous and indispensable personnel,” Hayes-Bautista continued in the report, co-authored with Paul Hsu, assistant professor of epidemiology at UCLA’s Fielding School of Public Health. They pointed to “agricultural personnel who feed California, truckers who ship state products, meat and vegetable packers, storekeepers and cashiers in the grocery industry, structural personnel, auto mechanics, gardeners and landscapers, bus drivers, workplace cleaners, etc. nursing homes and others working around the clock to keep California functioning as the population hardest hit by the virus.
According to the California Department of Public Health, the coronavirus has killed at least 12,407 other people in California and nearly a portion of them are Latino. In the United States, the number of coronavirus for the Latino network is equally alarming. In July, The New York Times reported that Latinos were 3 times more likely to become inflamed than whites and nearly twice as likely to die. “Systemic racism doesn’t just manifest itself in the corrupt justice system,” Quinton Lucas, mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, told the newspaper. “This is all we’re seeing taking lives not only in urban America, but also in rural America, and in all sorts of regions where, frankly, other people deserve an equivalent chance to live: physical care. “, to get tested, to be tracked. “