In recognition of Hispanic Heritage Month, the American Medical Association (AMA) released a new report emphasizing the starkly disproportionate Latinx COVID-19 cases and fatalities — further underscoring concerns that a lack of consistent data reporting underestimates the pandemic’s magnitude on the Latinx community and illustrating how the pandemic has deepened pre-existing inequities. The

By Giorlando Ramirez, Krutika Amin, and Cynthia Cox Twitter COVID-19 deaths in the United States have surpassed 200,000, and the coronavirus is now the third leading cause of death in this country, after heart disease and cancer. Before the pandemic, the U.S. already had the highest overall mortality rate among similarly large and wealthy countries,

Gravlee C. C. (2020). Systemic racism, chronic health inequities, and COVID-19: A syndemic in the making?. American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council, 32(5), e23482. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.23482 For a brief moment, in the early days of COVID‐19, some reports heralded the new coronavirus, SARS‐CoV‐2, as a “great