Democratic politicians are unhappy with the Trump administration’s latest report on the coronavirus pandemic.
The Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act requires the Trump administration to submit reports on coronavirus testing that includes available “data on demographic characteristics, including in a de-identified and disaggregated manner, race, ethnicity, age, sex, geographic region, and other relevant factors of individuals tested for or diagnosed with COVID-19,” and “information on the number and rates of cases, hospitalizations, and deaths as a result of COVID-19.
“What Congress required was a comprehensive report on health disparities related to the COVID-19 pandemic,” Sen. Patty Murray , a ranking member of the Senate health committee, said. “What we got from President Trump was a lazy, four-page copy and paste project that links to a handful of limited, previously available data sets.
Majority-black counties are three times more likely to have coronavirus cases and have almost six times the death rate as white-majority counties. In Louisiana, in particular, 70% of more than 1,600 coronavirus fatalities are African Americans, even though they are just 32% of the state’s population.
Most cities and states haven’t been reporting race when they provide case and fatality counts, complicating the task.
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