E-Mail Hispanic immigrants of working age -- 20 to 54 years old -- are over 11 times more likely to die of COVID-19 than U.S.-born men and women who are not Hispanic, according to a USC study of California death certificate data from 2020. The study, published Monday in the Annals of Epidemiology, highlights California's urgent need to bring vaccinations, treatments and other interventions to a demographic that comprises the backbone of the state's agricultural and service industries. Unions and advocacy groups are racing to convince immigrants, both documented and undocumented, to get vaccines, Politico reports. "We've known since early on that people of color are more likely to die of COVID. The CDC says that Hispanics, overall, are 2.3 times more likely to die than non-Hispanics," said Erika Garcia, an assistant professor of preventive medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and the study's first author. "Yet when we looked at this specific, working-age group, we were astonished to see much higher disparities."