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In April 2020, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control issued a report featuring evidence that in the month of March 2020, the coronavirus pandemic was not an equal-opportunity killer. Within just a couple of months of COVID-19 emerging in America, it became clear that health disparities were evident in outcomes due to complications from the coronavirus.
An update from that early look at differences in COVID-19 diagnoses and mortality rates was published in Health Disparities by Race and Ethnicity During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Current Evidence and Policy Approaches, In this report, the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, part of the Department of Health and Human Services, provides the evidence on health disparities and social determinants by race and ethnicity through March 10, 2021 starting from January 21, 2020 considered the start of the pandemic in the United States.
In the U.S., people who are part of Native and Pacific Islander, American Indian and Alaska Native, Hispanic and Latinx, and Black (non-Hispanic) communities were more likely to have had a COVID-19 diagnosis in the first fourteen months of the pandemic than people were White or Asian citizens.