Everything is out of whack because they have not been able to take care of themselves properly. "And as a cardiologist, I can tell you their risk factors are all out of control: diabetes, hypertension, heart failure. "Many were living on the edge before the pandemic, but now you are talking about severe mental health crisis because people didn't have a way to support themselves, and if they had family members relying on them, it was very distressing. Carlos Jose Rodriguez, director of cardiovascular epidemiology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. "People have been living on the edge," said Dr. Others with jobs that can't be done remotely have had to soldier on and go to work despite the risk of exposure. Latino workers have faced the largest losses in employment, especially in the service industry. Isolation in the pandemic has led to loss of the usual support systems that would typically carry Hispanic workers through severe economic and food insecurity. (Race and ethnicity data is available for 65% of the nation's cases.) 9, Hispanic people comprise 27% of COVID-19 cases in the U.S., even though they make up 18.5% of the total population. According to the latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data from Oct.
Overall, Hispanic people continue to disproportionally require hospitalization or die at higher rates from the virus than white people. Whether it's food insecurity or homelessness, all those aspects of where you live have never been more important and when you have a weak public health infrastructure, you get all the downstream consequences of that."
It makes it very hard to isolate if you test positive. "Often the whole family, many generations, live together. "It has to do with the kind of jobs people do, the kind of communities people live in. Fatima Rodriguez, a cardiologist and assistant professor of cardiovascular medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine in California. "This is about structural racism and structural inequities," said Dr. But recent studies suggest the disparities more severely impact Hispanic people who only speak Spanish, especially when it comes to unemployment and food insecurity. The pandemic has highlighted societal inequities that leave historically disenfranchised communities more at risk for COVID-19 exposure.