The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has stated that the counties in the United States that had large Black, Asian and Hispanic populations had a greater number of COVID-19 cases in the initial months of the pandemic.

A new study suggests that over a quarter of counties with large Asian or Black populations had a high incidence rate of COVID-19 infections in the first two weeks of April 2020. High incidence has been defined by the CDC as over 100 new cases per 100,000 people in the population. At the time, around 11.4% of all counties were reported to have a high COVID-19 incidence rate, as opposed to around 29% of counties that had an above-average share of Asian individuals and about 28% of counties with an above-average share of Black individuals… (CNN, March 24, 2021)