Leandris advocates for as chief health equity officer in CDC’s COVID-19 response – groups of people at increased risk for the disease.
They include Hispanic, Native American, Alaskan Native, and Black people, and although each community is unique, many people in these groups have suffered much more in the pandemic.They are more than 2.5 times as likely as White people in the United States to get COVID-19 and on average about five times as likely to be hospitalized, according to CDC data.