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Mar 11, 2020 · In California, Santa Clara County remains the largest outbreak, with at least 45 confirmed cases. Los Angeles County has at least 17 cases, the second highest of any county.
- erin.logan@latimes.com
- Staff Writer
- Disproportionate Impacts of Covid-19
- Vaccination Efforts Among Marginalized Communities
- Research Contributions
Over the last 3 years, racial and ethnic minorities in the U.S. have experienced higher COVID-19 infection and mortality rates than their white counterparts.3 Early in the pandemic, Black, Latino, Asian, and Native American individuals faced higher hospitalization and intensive care unit (ICU) admissions rates due to COVID-19 than white patients.4 ...
Vaccination efforts to protect against COVID-19 began at the end of 2020 and continue in 2023 with the rollout of boosters to combat variants of the virus. Despite efforts to achieve an equitable distribution of vaccinations, disparities in vaccination rates remain prevalent by race and ethnicity. As of July 2022, Black individuals had the lowest v...
Empirical research has established that COVID-19 disproportionately affected Black, Latino, and Native American individuals early in the pandemic and that vaccination efforts resulted in an uneven distribution of vaccines. However, several questions remain, including: 1) Have racial disparities of COVID-19 persisted since their initial peaks? and 2...
Apr 16, 2020 · April 15, 2020 8:02 PM PT. What is the WHO? The U.N.’s global health agency, tasked with fighting outbreaks of serious illness, has taken a leading role in the coronavirus crisis, and has also...
- laura.king@latimes.com
- Staff Writer
Feb 16, 2023 · A new California Health Care Foundation survey found Black and Latino Californians were more likely to have negative health provider experiences and medical debt.
- Marissa Evans
Los Angeles County (LA County) is home to >1 million undocumented immigrants—the largest of any county in the United States. 34 LA County provides a safety-net system of care through the Department of Health Services (LAC-DHS), which serves all patients irrespective of ability to pay or immigration status. 35 When the ACA reduced federal safety-...
- Matthew Yu, A. Taylor Kelley, Anna U. Morgan, Andrew Duong, Anish Mahajan, Jessica D. Gipson
- 2020
As the pandemic advanced in the United States, surveillance epidemiological data made it clear that Black and Latinx populations were disproportionately affected by COVID-19. 3 - 8 Historically, communities of color and those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds have been disparately affected during global and regional health outbreaks.
14 hours ago · The important role of sport as the “low-cost high-impact tool par excellence for public health” was highlighted by the President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Thomas Bach, as he delivered a keynote address at the 77th World Health Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva today. Delegates from all WHO Member States have come together in Switzerland for the ...
