This Week in Coronavirus: October 9 to October 15 | KFF – Kaiser Family Foundation

Heres our recap of thepast week inthe coronaviruspandemicfrom our tracking, policy analysis, polling, and journalism.

This week a joint project between KFF and ESPNs The Undefeated explores the publics views and experiences on the topics of health care, racial discrimination, and the coronavirus pandemic, with a special focus on Black adults. Half of Black adults say they would definitely or probably get a coronavirus vaccine available for free and deemed safe by scientists, compared to 61% of Hispanic adults and 65% of White adults. KFF President Drew Altman discusses how systemic racism had led to striking levels of reluctance to get a COVID-19 vaccine among Black Americans in an Axios column.

The national survey also explored the disproportionate impact of the pandemic on people of color. Half of Black adults and 57% of Hispanic adults say someone in their household lost a job, was furloughed, or had their hours or income reduced due to the pandemic, compared to 42% of White adults. Two-thirds of Black adults think the federal government would be taking stronger action to fight the pandemic if White people were getting sick and dying from the coronavirus at higher rates than people of color.

Global Cases and Deaths:Totalcases worldwide reached36.3 millionthis week withan increase ofapproximately2.4 million new confirmed cases in the past seven days.There werenearly 39,000new confirmed deaths worldwide and the total confirmed deaths is over 1 million.

U.S. Cases and Deaths: Total confirmed cases in the U.S. surpassed 7.9 million this week. There was an approximate increase of 373,800 confirmed cases between October 9 and October 15. Approximately 4,900 confirmed deaths in the past week brought the total in the United States to approximately 217,700.

Race/Ethnicity Data: Hispanic individuals made up a higher share of cases compared to their share of the total population in 44 of 46 states reporting cases and 13 of 47 states reporting deaths. In 7 states (NH, NC, NE, OR, WA, VA, and PA), Hispanic peoples share of cases was more than 3 times their share of the population. COVID-19 continues to have a sharp, disproportionate impact on American Indian/Alaska Native as well as Asian people in some states. Black individuals made up a higher share of cases/deaths compared to their share of the population in 40 of 50 states reporting cases and 34 of 48 states reporting deaths. In 6 states (MI, MO, WI, KS, and ME) the share of COVID-19 related deaths among Black people was at least two times higher than their share of the total population.

Extensions: AR, CO, GA, HI, IN, MN, SC, VT, WY

New Restrictions: ND

Rollbacks: CA, ME, ND, TX, WI, WV

Enhanced Face Mask Order: ME

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