Latinos are testing positive to coronavirus at higher rates than any other demographic group in Illinois, alarming officials and experts who say that if the number of cases 'continues to rise in Latino communities, so too will the rates of deaths.'
But Latinos make up 25 percent of confirmed cases, surpassing African Americans who account for nearly 20 percent.
While African Americans continue to make up"a disproportionate percentage of cases and deaths " in Chicago, Latinos are starting to outpace them as they increasingly make up the largest percentage of cases,The rise of coronavirus cases in Latino neighborhoods is consistent with an overall increase of confirmed COVID-19 cases throughout Chicago,. However, city data shows"an increasingly disproportionate impact on the Latinx community," she said.
Over 361,000 people in Illinois have been tested for coronavirus. More than half, 52 percent didn't report their race or ethnicity."This could be due to a lack of inclusion of race and ethnicity data, gaps in data collection, and outdated segregation of sociodemographic data," according to the coalition.
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