Hispanic Americans are most vulnerable to covid-19

ACCORDING TO the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, racial minorities were three times as likely to be hospitalised with covid-19 as whites. But why? Data scientists at A3.AI, a health-research group, analysed the insurance records of 14m patients in the Covid-19 Research Database, 380,000 of whom were diagnosed with the virus, to disentangle the causes for The Economist. Even controlling for education, income, age and prior health conditions does not explain what is going on. But one notable finding is that Hispanic Americans were the most vulnerable group.