New Data: Easier for Blacks,Latinos to Get COVID; Twice as Likely as Whites to Die from Coronavirus

A secret CDC (Centers for Disease Control) report obtained by the New York Times reveals that Black and Latino Americans -- and in some cases Native Americans -- are far more likely to contact coronavirus and to fare worse than their white counterparts once they get it, the Daily Beast website reports today (July 6, 2020).

The CDC found that ethnicity plays a major role in disease outcomes in the U.S. and that Black and Latino people have been more affected throughout hundreds of countries.

The report shows that Latino and Black Americans have been tree times as likely as their white neighbors to contact COVID-19.

They are also twice as likely as their white neighbors to die from it, no matter where they live in the U.S.