COVID-19 claims the lives of Black and Latino Americans earlier than it does for whites. Nonwhite victims are typically a decade younger than whites, the CDC says.
Among Latinos, theAdvertisementHere’s another way of looking at the age gap: In this group, the percentage of Latinos who died who were not yet 65 years old was 35%. For nonwhites, it was 30%. Yet for whites it was only 13% — a “notable” difference, the study authors wrote.
Some of that difference might be explained by the fact that white Americans, on the whole, are older than other Americans. In the U.S., the median age of whites is 44, versus 31 for nonwhites.In the study population, 34% of those who were younger than 65 when they died were Latino, even though Latinos account for only 20% of all Americans under age 65.
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