Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorWe learned last week that young adults are “now driving infections in L.A. County.”We know that “Healthcare workers continue to be the most affected” worker population in the county, according to health officials.We know from Governor Gavin Newsom that, statewide, the Latino community continues to be disproportionately impacted.But there is a smaller group in L.A.
County that has fared worse than any of these: Pacific Islanders.Case rates for Pacific Islanders are six times higher than white residents in L.A.
County.Even Latinos who are, numerically, the hardest-hit population in the state, have a case/hospitalization/mortality rate that’s half that of Pacific Islanders.
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