Blacks and Latinos in Pa. more likely to end up in hospital due to COVID-19
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Black and Latino residents in Pennsylvania have been much more likely to require hospital care due to COVID-19, according to a new study released Wednesday.
The Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council study found Black residents were more than four times as likely to be hospitalized as white Pennsylvanians. Latino residents have been more than twice as likely to need hospital care than white residents.
The study mirrors other research nationwide that shows the pandemic having a disproportionate impact on those from minority groups and people with low incomes.
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Marie McCullough, The Philadelphia Inquirer
April 28, 2021
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PHILADELPHIA The reason severe COVID-19 is so deadly is that it unleashes a condition called sepsis.
Sepsis occurs when an abnormal immune response to an infection damages the body’s own tissues, leading to organ failure.
Of the 26,266 people who were hospitalized with COVID-19 in Pennsylvania in the first seven months of the pandemic, about 8,000, or 31%, also were diagnosed with sepsis, according to a new report from the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4).
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