RACINE â Health disparities locally and nationwide are more obvious amid COVID-19. While health results across the board remain worse for people of color in the U.S., theyâre especially bad when it comes to COVID-19. Compared to whites, African Americans were 10% more likely to catch COVID-19, 190% more likely to be hospitalized for it and 90% more likely to die from it, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Similarly, comparing outcomes of Latino or Hispanic people to whites, the chance of contracting COVID-19 was 30% higher, chance of hospitalization was 210% higher, and chance of death was 130% greater. Westergaard Clint Thayer, photo courtesy of the University of Wisconsin-Madison