Division of Infectious Diseases, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA.
J Infect Dis. 2020 Oct 13;222(10):1592-1595. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiaa474.
In December 2019, a novel coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2, emerged in Wuhan, China, causing the coronavirus disease 2019 we now refer to as COVID-19. The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic on 12 March 2020. In the United States, the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed preexisting social and health disparities among several historically vulnerable populations, with stark differences in the proportion of minority individuals diagnosed with and dying from COVID-19. In this article we will describe the emerging disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on the Hispanic/Latinx (henceforth: Hispanic or Latinx) community in the United States, discuss potential antecedents, and consider strategies to address the disparate impact of COVID-19 on this population.
2019 年 12 月,一种新型冠状病毒在我国武汉出现,被称为 SARS-CoV-2,引发了我们现在所说的 2019 冠状病毒病(COVID-19)。世界卫生组织于 2020 年 3 月 12 日宣布 COVID-19 为大流行。在美国,COVID-19 大流行暴露了几个历史上处于弱势地位的人群中存在的先前存在的社会和健康差距,少数族裔人群中被诊断出患有 COVID-19 和死于 COVID-19 的比例存在明显差异。在本文中,我们将描述 COVID-19 在 美国对西班牙裔/拉丁裔(以下简称:西班牙裔或拉丁裔)社区的影响日益加剧,讨论潜在的前因,并考虑解决这一人群中 COVID-19 影响差异的策略。