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Medicine 2021-04-08

Hispanic immigrants of working age at highest risk of dying from COVID-19

The study of California death certificates shows young, foreign-born Latino adults faced a significantly high risk of dying from COVID compared to others
Hispanic immigrants of working age -- 20 to 54 years old -- are over 11 times more likely to die of COVID-19 than U.S.-born men and women who are not Hispanic, according to a USC study of California death certificate data from 2020.

The study, published Monday in the END