The Impact of COVID-19 in Latino Communities in Philadelphia
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Report Publish Date: June 2021
This issue brief describes the factors that converged to create COVID-19's disproportionate impact on Latino people living in Philadelphia during the pandemic.
Primary Takeaways
Latinos in Philadelphia had COVID-19 at a rate 32% higher than that of non-Hispanic White Philadelphians. Latinos’ testing rate was 29% lower.
Latino people living in Philadelphia tended to live in more vulnerable neighborhoods. They were also at higher risk because they were more likely than White people to work in essential jobs or to live in overcrowded conditions and less likely to have reliable transportation, health insurance, or primary care providers.
Overview and Objectives
The authors wanted to understand why Latinos in Philadelphia were much more likely than non-Hispanic White people to get infected with COVID-19, be hospitalized, and die during the pandemic.
Hypothesis or Approach
The authors used a differential exposure and vulnerability framework and data from the Drexel COVID-19 Inequities Dashboard.
How This Influences Change
Understanding why some populations of people were more at risk for illness and death during the pandemic can help public health researchers, advocates, and officials take steps to keep them healthier in the future.
Research: Go Deeper
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the loss of many lives in Philadelphia. The impact, however, has been disproportionately high among the Latino and Black communities. Over the past year, excess rates of infection, hospitalization and deaths have unfolded among the Latino community. In this brief, we use the framework of differential exposure and vulnerability to illustrate the context in which factors have converged to result in disproportionately large COVID-19 impact among Latinos in Philadelphia.
Drexel University Urban Health Collaborative, June 2021
Research Team
This study and report was conducted and created by the following people.
- M. Lazo
- U. Bilal
- C. Correa
- A. Furukawa
- A. Martinez-Donate
- C. Zumaeta-Castillo
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