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COVID-19's impact in the United States is immense, but the virus's impact has been disproportionately experienced in black and Hispanic/Latinx communities. The map below displays and ranks each state by the extent to which the racial differences in COVID-19 rates of infection and deaths have diverged from each state's general population. The redder the state, the greater the COVID-19 racial disparity.
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| 1 | Infection and death data provided by The COVID Tracking Project's Racial Data Tracker | |
| 2 | In states that track hispanic/latinx ethnicity separately from race the some of these groups may exceed the number of cases for which race/ethnicity is reported. | |
| 3 | These graphs are only counting deaths for which we have data on race, not total infections and deaths as a result of COVID-19. | |
| 4 | Disparities calculated with the Divergence index formula: DIi= ∑xim Ln(xim/ xm) where xim is the proportion of racial group m with COVID-19 deaths (i); xm is the proportion of racial group m within the state(s); DIi is the Divergence Index for COVID-19 deaths. | |
| 5 | The Divergence Index allows us to examine disparities holistically, for all groups simultaneously, rather than just between two groups at a time. For more information on the Divergence index, see the original paper (Roberto, 2016) or our Bay Area Segregation Report, Part 3, in which we apply the measure to residential segregation in the San Francisco Bay Area. | |