The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) does a comparison of COVID in the U.S. for testing positive, being hospitalized, and dying — comparing Afro-Americans, Hispanic, Asian and Native American/Native Alaskan to the White population. While the Asian category tracks closely to the White, the other three all show 2.6-2.8 times higher cases, and 4.6-5.3 times higher hospitalizations. They are contracting COVID, and suffering from worse cases of COVID, out of proportion to their representation in the population. They do not have data tracked for income levels.
Interestingly, once in a hospital, the incidence of death tends to even out both for the Hispanic and American Indian populations, as they drop down to only around 1.1 -1.4 times higher than Whites. However, there is still a significant variance in deaths for Afro-Americans, who die at a rate 2.1 times higher than Whites. Otherwise, the CDC does list as the key factors crowding, enclosed spaces and duration of exposure — factors much more likely to accompany poverty.
