Coronavirus kills more Hispanics in New York | Society

In New York, the coronavirus is being disproportionately more deadly among the Hispanic population. 34% of those killed in the city by Covid-19 are Hispanic, despite the fact that they only represent 29% of the New York population. African Americans are also being, although to a lesser extent than Hispanics, disproportionately beaten: they constitute 28% of fatalities and their weight in the city is 22%. Whites, on the other hand, constitute 32% of the population, but only 29% of those who died from the coronavirus. This is revealed in the figures from the city’s Health Department, for the first time segregated by ethnic groups.

“This makes me very angry. It’s disgusting, it’s worrying, ”said New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Democrat. The differences, said the councilor, are largely explained by economic inequalities, which affect access to health care.

“There are clear inequalities, disparities in how this disease is affecting the people of our city,” De Blasio said. “The truth is that, in many ways, the negative effects of the coronavirus, the pain it is causing, the death it is causing, dovetail with other profound disparities that we have seen for years and decades.”

De Blasio and Dr. Oxiris Barbot, the city’s health commissioner, noted that some of the Hispanic residents may have been reluctant to go to the doctor, due to “the layer of anti-immigration rhetoric throughout the country.”

The Governor of the State, Andrew Cuomo, also referred in his daily press conference to the higher mortality in Latino and African-American minorities. Cuomo recalled that there is “probably” a high proportion of these minorities in public-facing jobs that remain open. “We will do an investigation,” he said. But he pointed out that the data in New York “does not resemble anything in other places”, referring to Chicago figures released Tuesday, where blacks, being 30% of the population, suffer 70% of deaths from the pandemic.

Data released by the city also points to strikingly higher death rates among African-American and, especially, Hispanic patients. Among the latter, there are 22 deaths per 100,000 people. Among African Americans, 20; and among whites, 10.

Statistically, Latinos and African Americans have worse access to healthcare than the average and suffer more chronic diseases, some of which, such as diabetes, asthma or cardiovascular diseases, are risk factors in Covid-19. “Many people have a hard time getting the medical help they need, or they don’t have the money to pay for what they deserve. That is why many people live with chronic diseases, ”said De Blasio.

The figures divided by ethnicity correspond only to 63% of the deaths in the city, because the data has not been processed in all deaths. New York State is one of the great global epicenters of the pandemic. This Wednesday it has reported 779 deaths, registering the highest number of deaths in 24 hours to date from Covid-19. In the afternoon there were almost 150,000 confirmed cases and a total of 6,268 deaths from coronavirus.

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