- Look at this CDC infographic on racial and ethnic differences in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/downloads/covid-data/hospitalization-death-by-race-ethnicity.pdf
- Listen to this NPR – Code Switch episode, “The United States’ Pre-Existing Conditions”: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/905846282
- The racial and ethnic composition of Harris county is 29% white non-Hispanic, 44% Hispanic 20% Black, and 7% Asian. The racial and ethnic composition of Queens county, NY is 25% white non-Hispanic, 28% Hispanic 21% Black, and 27% Asian (source: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/).
- Use information from Chapter 3 slides related to COVID-19 rates and measures, as well as the information from the sources above, to answer the following questions: (1) How might racial and ethnic inequality contribute to higher rates of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths? (2) If Harris County had suffered a large wave of COVID-19 early on in the pandemic, as Queens, NY experienced, do you think Harris county would have a case fatality rate similar to the one it has now, or more similar to the case fatality rate in Queens? Explain and justify your answer.
