Posted on April 13, 2020

California: Health Department Breaks Down State COVID-19 Case Demographics

Bay City News, SFBay.CA, April 12, 2020

The California Department of Public Health announced Saturday that the total number of Covid-19 coronavirus cases in the state had reached 20,615, with 609 deaths as of Friday.

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Health department officials said case numbers per ethnicity were close to the breakdown of the state population in each category: 34 percent of the current cases are Latinos (39 percent of the population) and 33 percent are white (37 percent of the population).

Asian Americans accounted for 13 percent of all cases, 15 percent of all deaths and are 17 percent of the state population. African Americans have 7 percent of all cases, 10 percent of all deaths and are 6 percent of the state population. {snip}

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