Latino community disproportionately affected as San Diego reaches grim milestone of 2,000 COVID-19 deaths "His most important pre-existing condition was he was alive. And thanks to the pandemic, he's not alive," said Dotinga about his father who died due to COVID-19. Author: Alicia Summers (Reporter) Updated: 7:02 PM PST January 15, 2021 SAN DIEGO COUNTY, California — The grim local milestone of more than 2,000 deaths related to COVID-19 across San Diego County comes as a new variant is picking up steam. And unfortunately, this is hurting the Latinx community more. "Infection rates among Latinos in San Diego County was about 63% and deaths were about 50%. Now both of those numbers have decreased a little bit but are still very high especially when you factor in that Latinos make up 34% of the population in San Diego County," said Nancy Maldonado, San Diego Chicano Federation.