Black, Latino Henrico residents experience disproportionate effects from COVID-19
Henrico Newsflash – Nov. 17, 2021
Black, Latino Henrico residents experience disproportionate effects from COVID-19
Black and Latino residents of Henrico County have suffered disproportionately negative effects from COVID-19 when compared with their white counterparts, according to data released Wednesday by the Virginia Department of Health.
The VDH’s new health equity dashboard shows that since the pandemic began, Latino residents of the county developed COVID cases at twice the rate white residents did and were hospitalized at 1.5 times the rate of whites. Black residents developed cases at 1.5 times the rate of whites and were hospitalized at nearly twice the rate of whites.
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