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U.S. Hits 11 Million Coronavirus Cases, Adding 1 Million In A Week:
U.S. Hits 11 Million Coronavirus Cases, Adding 1 Million In A Week
More than 11 million confirmed coronavirus cases have been recorded in the United States, according to a COVID-19 tracker by Johns Hopkins University. The country reported 166,555 new cases on Sunday, with 1,266 new deaths.
The staggering milestone was reached only six days after the U.S. hit 10 million cases. Positive test rates and hospitalization rates are on the rise across the country, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[...] Hospitalizations continue to climb. More than 69,000 people were hospitalized as of Sunday, more than ever before.
The pandemic also continues to disproportionately affect Black and brown communities in the U.S. According to data from the CDC as of Nov. 7, hospitalization rates for Hispanic or Latino people are 4.2 times higher than that of white people. American Indian or Alaska Native people have been hospitalized at 4.1 times the rate of white people, with Black people being hospitalized at 3.9 times the rate of white people.
[...] The Trump administration has blocked the current coronavirus task force from communicating with President-elect Biden's team.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 17 2020, @01:12AM (2 children)
Black and brown people disproportionately fill jobs with a higher risk of catching covid. They disproportionately make up care workers at the bottom of the hierarchy (the ones who have to deal with bodily fluids etc. of patients). They also make up the majority of workers in service jobs that remained open and in contact with the public/things the public have contacted, like gas stations, cleaning crews, restaurant workers, etc.
They are also disproportionately poor, and are more likely to live in crowded conditions in multi-generational households, or multi-family households.
Lastly, the jobs above are less likely to have health care coverage, so folks are going to be in very bad shape by the time they break down and seek medical care.
Nothing should be surprising about the ethnic breakdown of COVID cases, nor the breakdown in fatalities.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 17 2020, @03:20AM (1 child)
Believe me,t here is plenty of White people that would take these jobs, but somehow allowing immigration from White countries is racist.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 17 2020, @05:39AM
No there aren't. What self-respecting white person old enough to drink works a minimum wage job? If you do see a white person in one of those jobs it's because they're screw-ups who will never amount to anything.