Colorado: State Releases Initial COVID Data on Racial/Ethnic Differences

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment is releasing all available race and ethnicity data on reported cases of COVID-19 in the state.

The race and ethnicity data released today represents 75% of all reported COVID-19 cases. Cases with an unknown race or ethnicity are excluded from these calculations.

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Here are the cases collected and analyzed by race/ethnicity by number:

Total: 5,188 cases with race and ethnicity data

• American Indian or Alaskan Natives (non-Hispanic): 24 cases, 0.46%
• Asian (non-Hispanic): 116 cases, 2.24% (statistically lower)
  Black or African American (non-Hispanic): 363 cases, 7.00% (statistically higher)
• Hispanic: 1,458 cases, 28.10% (statistically higher)
• Multiple racial categories (non-Hispanic): 96 cases, 1.85% (statistically lower)
• Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic): 29 cases, 0.56% (statistically higher)
• Other: 38 cases, 0.73% (no test performed as population data do not include ‘other’)
• White (non-Hispanic): 3,064 cases, 59.06% (statistically lower)

Here are the deaths among cases collected and analyzed by race/ethnicity by number:

Total: 249 deaths among cases with race and ethnicity data

• American Indian or Alaskan Natives (non-Hispanic): 2 deaths, 0.80%
• Asian (non-Hispanic): 7 deaths, 2.81%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic): 17 deaths, 6.83%
• Hispanic: 44 deaths, 17.67%
• Multiple racial categories (non-Hispanic): 3 deaths, 1.20%
• Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic): 4 deaths, 1.61%
• Other: 0 deaths (no test performed as population data do not include ‘other’)
• White (non-Hispanic): 172 deaths, 69.08%

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CDPHE is working continuously on data analysis and will update case data by race/ethnicity and other factors as it is available. Starting tomorrow, CDPHE will add race and ethnicity data to its daily refresh of data.