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JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 222, Issue 10, Pages 1592-1595Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiaa474
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COVID-19; coronavirus; SARS-CoV-2; Hispanic; Latinx; health disparity
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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.
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