COVID-19 Hospitalization and Death by Race/Ethnicity
Race and ethnicity are risk markers for other underlying conditions that affect health including socioeconomic status, access to health care, and exposure to the virus related to occupation, e.g., frontline, essential, and critical infrastructure workers.
| Rate ratios compared to White, Non-Hispanic persons | American Indian or Alaska Native, Non-Hispanic persons | Asian, Non-Hispanic persons | Black or African American, Non-Hispanic persons | Hispanic or Latino persons |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cases1 | 1.8x | 0.6x | 1.4x | 1.7x |
| Hospitalization2 | 4.0x | 1.2x | 3.7x | 4.1x |
| Death3 | 2.6x | 1.1x | 2.8x | 2.8x |
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1 Data source: Data reported by state and territorial jurisdictions (accessed 11/27/2020). Numbers are ratios of age-adjusted rates standardized to the 2000 US standard population. Calculations use only the 52% of reports with race/ethnicity; this can result in inaccurate estimates of the relative risk among groups.
2 Data source: COVID-NET (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/covid-net/purpose-methods.html, accessed 11/25/2020). Numbers are ratios of age-adjusted rates standardized to the 2000 US standard COVID-NET catchment population.
3 Data source: NCHS provisional death counts (https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Deaths-involving-coronavirus-disease-2019-COVID-19/ks3g-spdg, accessed 11/27/2020). Numbers are ratios of age-adjusted rates standardized to the 2000 US standard population.
