COVID-19 Pandemic: Disparate Health Impact on the Hispanic/Latinx Population in the United States

Journal of Infectious Diseases - Tập 222 Số 10 - Trang 1592-1595 - 2020
Raul Macias Gil1, Jasmine R Marcelin2, Brenda Zuniga-Blanco3, Carina Marquez4, Trini A. Mathew5, Damani A. Piggott6
1Division of Infectious Diseases, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
2Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
3Faculty of Medicine, Autonomous University of San Luis Potosi, San Luis Potosi, Mexico
4Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
5Division of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine, Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Michigan, USA
6Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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Abstract In December 2019, a novel coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2, emerged in Wuhan, China, causing the coronavirus disease 2019 we now refer to as COVID-19. The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic on 12 March 2020. In the United States, the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed preexisting social and health disparities among several historically vulnerable populations, with stark differences in the proportion of minority individuals diagnosed with and dying from COVID-19. In this article we will describe the emerging disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on the Hispanic/Latinx (henceforth: Hispanic or Latinx) community in the United States, discuss potential antecedents, and consider strategies to address the disparate impact of COVID-19 on this population.

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