AUSTIN (KXAN) — As numbers from around the country continue to demonstrate the ways communities of color are disproportionately impacted by COVID-19, health experts, public officials and organizers in Austin are calling for more data on the ways the novel coronavirus is affecting people of different races and social conditions.
As of Tuesday evening, Travis County had 900 confirmed cases of COVID-19. Of those, 10% identified their race as Black, 76% identified their race as White, 29% identified their ethnicity as Non Hispanic, 39% identified their ethnicity as Hispanic. Those numbers track fairly closely to the 2018 Census estimates for Travis County, 8.9% Black, 79.9% White, 48.8% Non Hispanic, and 33.9% Hispanic.
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