More than a third of all people who've had coronavirus in the United States are Latinx

More than one third of all people who have tested positive for Coronavirus in the United States are Latinx, according to data compiled by the Centers for Disease Control.

Buried deep in the CDC web site are web pages with charts showing that as of June 21, Latinos were 34.3% of those who have tested positive. The figure for Anglos --"non-Hispanic whites," in government lingo-- was 34.8%, barely half a percent higher.

But we "Hispanics" are only 18.3% of the country's population, and Anglos are more than 3 times as many at 60.4%. If you do the math it means that if you're Latinx, you're three and a quarter times more likely to have tested positive for the virus than if you are white.

There has also been a large disparate impact on the African American community. They account for 21.3 percent of cases but only 13.4 percent of the population, which means a Black person was almost three times more likely than a white one to become infected.

The relatively little attention on the disparate impact of Covid-19 on minority communities has been focused overwhelmingly on the Black community and for a very good reason: the best available data has been on the race of the dead. And deaths among Latinos don't seem to be that high -- the latest data (on figure 2a of this CDC web page) shows deaths among Latinos are 18.3%. What you must remember is that 80% or more of the deaths are among those of Medicare age, but only 8% of those over 65 are Latino.

It is in the very youngest demographic --minors-- where we are over-represented, with a quarter of the country's children. And among the children, 54% well over half of those under 18 who have tested positive for the virus are Latinx.