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US reports show racial disparities in kids with COVID-19

from The Associated Press via WTTW-TV

US reports show racial disparities in kids with COVID-19 The Associated Press via WTTW-TV Racial disparities in the U.S. coronavirus epidemic extend to children, according to two sobering government reports. One of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports looked children with COVID-19 who needed hospitalization. Hispanic children were hospitalized at a rate eight times higher than white kids, and Black children were hospitalized at a rate five times higher, it found. The second report examined cases of a rare virus-associated syndrome in kids. It found that nearly three-quarters of the children with the syndrome were either Hispanic or Black, well above their representation in the general population. READ MORE

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