Chart: Overall Latinx COVID-19 death rate masks disproportionate risk at every age group: COVID-19 death rates per 100,000, Latinx and white populations, by age group

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Overall Latinx COVID-19 death rate masks disproportionate risk at every age group: COVID-19 death rates per 100,000, Latinx and white populations, by age group

	Latinx	White

All ages	39	35

0–14 years	0	0
15–24 years	1	0
25–34 years	4	1
35–44 years	13	2
45–54 years	36	5
55–64 years	88	17
65–74 years	187	50
75 years and over	536	296

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Notes: White refers to non-Latinx whites; persons whose ethnicity is identified as Latinx may be of any race. Death rates calculated using COVID-19 provisional death counts as of July 22, 2020 (see Sources line).

Sources: Authors’ analysis of Economic Policy Institute Current Population Survey Extracts, Version 1.0.5 (2020a), https://microdata.epi.org; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, COVID-19 Death Data and Resources Weekly Updates [Table 2], accessed July 22, 2020 (CDC 2020a).

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