By Erin Allday, San Francisco Chronicle, April 9, 2020
Roughly half of the people who have tested positive for the coronavirus in California are African American, Latino or Asian, according to data released Wednesday by state public health officials who have come under pressure to provide more details about who is infected and dying in the pandemic.
The state’s demographic profile is based on only 37% — or about 6,300 — of all of California’s confirmed cases, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday in his daily briefing. That’s because this was the only demographic information available as of Wednesday, thus Newsom said he was hesitant to draw conclusions from the partial information.
Nonetheless, California released the data as concerns arose nationally over the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on African Americans.
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