Our most recent look at the race and ethnicity data available from states has been published. The continued lack of consistent, comprehensive data makes it impossible to fully understand who is being infected with and dying of COVID-19.
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More Black Americans have died of COVID-19 since the pandemic began than there are names on the Vietnam Memorial. More Black or Latinx people have died than the number of people commemorated on the AIDS Memorial Quilt. The loss to the country is on a catastrophic scale. 
The race and ethnicity data reported by states shows declining—but persistent—inequities. 1 in 6 Latinx people in Rhode Island and Utah has tested positive for COVID-19 since the pandemic began.
Too much data is still missing—we don’t even have race data for a third of US COVID-19 cases. New datasets—including, critically, vaccination data—must not replicate the flaws and omissions of the other COVID-19 datasets we’ve worked with throughout the course of the pandemic.
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