Travis County HHS Hosts Community Conversation On COVID-19

NORTH AUSTIN, TX —As COVID-19 continues impacting communities, the City of Austin and Travis County public health officials will host a virtual event to discuss ways to ways to improve outcomes, and how the pandemic has disproportionately affected communities of color. Preliminary data from Austin/Travis County reflect the challenges communities of color have faced amid COVID-19:

COVID-19 hospitalization rate for March-April 2020:

• 12% for White Non-Hispanic individuals,
  
• 17% for Latinx individuals, and
  
• 18% for African American individuals.

COVID-19 fatality rate:

• 1.9% for White Non-Hispanic individuals,
  
• 1.6% for Latinx individuals, and
  
• 5.4% for African-American individuals

The virtual conversations will be held Saturday, June 13 beginning at 10 a.m. and the community is invited to join in. To register for the free event, or for more information, click HERE.

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