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As the coronavirus spreads relentlessly through Los Angeles County, poor neighborhoods and the region’s Latino and Black communities continue to bear the brunt of illness and death.

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These groups have been disproportionately hard hit since the beginning of the pandemic, but the gap had eased during the summer. That progress has disappeared and members of those communities are now dying at rates far worse than at any previous point.

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People living in the most impoverished neighborhoods of the county are now averaging about 36 deaths a day per 100,000 residents. By contrast, those living in the wealthiest areas are experiencing about 10 deaths a day per 100,000 residents.

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Latino residents in L.A. County are dying at an astonishing eight times the rate they once did — from 3½ daily deaths per 100,000 in early November to 28 deaths a day now for every 100,000 .latimes.com/california/sto…

The death rate among Black residents soared from less than 1 daily death per 100,000 to more than 15 deaths a day per 100,000.

White residents have the lowest rate of death among the other racial and ethnic groups — 10 deaths per 100,000 residents.

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The COVID-19 death rate for Latino residents of L.A. County, shown in yellow, and for Black residents, shown in green, and for Asian Americans shown in blue, are higher than that for white residents, shown in orange.
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