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Originally Posted by DaFace
I should add that the odd thing is that Colorado deaths line up with population distribution pretty closely despite the fact that Latinos overindex on cases by almost a factor of two. My theory is that they tend to be younger, while non-Hispanic white people are less likely to get it, but they are more likely to die from it since they tend to be older.
Data is here for Colorado FWIW.
https://covid19.colorado.gov/data/case-data |
Yeah, a lot has been made about demographic and geographic stratification of COVID especially now that death statistics seem to have uncoupled from tests, at least for the moment. But I think a lot of this has to do with cultural factors like you mention - they are more likely to live in larger, multi-generational households and they aren't as willing to avoid socialization. They aren't unlike Italians, I suppose.
There's also the fact that blacks and latinos are more likely to use public transit and work in jobs where transmission is much more common, but we shouldn't ignore the fact that some people are just a lot more likely to ignore the precautions than others because it's hard on them culturally to isolate themselves.