According to a FiveThirtyEight review of data available, 18 states and U.S. territories are not reporting information on the race and ethnicity of people who have died of COVID-19.
. However, missing data and varying race reporting guidelines have made getting an accurate count of cases in that community nearly impossible. Some states provide separate breakdowns of race and ethnicity, while others lump Hispanic and Latino identities into the racial breakdown.
For example, California reports racial and ethnic breakdown together under the following categories: Latino, white, Asian, African American/black, multi-race, American Indian or Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander, and “other.” In comparison, Louisiana reports racial and ethnic breakdowns separately under the following categories for race: American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian, black, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, white and “other.” The categories the state uses for ethnicity are Hispanic/Latino and non-Hispanic/Latino.
“This inability for us to do the most basic function, which is to aggregate data, is an example of our institutions in this nation having lost their capacity to be of service to people who need them the most,” said Michael McAfee, CEO of , a national research advocacy organization focused on racial equality. “This is not hard to do. The question is: Is there the will there to do it?”: A previous version of this article mistakenly said that the C.D.C. does not release any race or ethnicity data for COVID-19 deaths. The article has been updated.
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