Racial disparities seen in Louisiana's COVID-19 patients Yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine a study of Louisiana COVID-19 patients showed major racial and ethnic differences in both hospitalization rates and in-hospital deaths.The study analyzed outcomes from 3,481 patients seen in the Ochsner Health system between Mar 1 and Apr 11.
Of those patients, 70.4% were black non-Hispanic, and 29.6% were white non-Hispanic. A total of 39.7% patients (1,382 patients) were hospitalized, 76.9% of whom were black.
Among the 326 patients who died from COVID-19, 70.6% were black, the authors said."More than one-third of admitted patients (474 patients) received care in an intensive care unit, among whom 80.2% were black patients.