| المساهمون: |
Cardenas, Irma C. (VerfasserIn); Ocaranza, Hector I. (VerfasserIn); Castillo, Ruth (VerfasserIn); Ortega-Madani, Azucena (VerfasserIn); Barrera, Susana (VerfasserIn); Urrea, Christina (VerfasserIn); Mora, Angela (VerfasserIn) |
| مستخلص: |
Purpose: We assessed COVID-19, and SARS-CoV-2 data in El Paso, Texas, a largely Hispanic population, particularly the interaction between older age and diabetes mellitus on the risk of COVID-19 mortality.Methods: We calculated age-adjusted morbidity and mortality rate ratios by age, gender, race/ethnicity, date of onset, and poverty. We assessed temporal trends using joinpoint regression. We conducted a door-to-door cluster sampling serologic survey. We calculated the relative excess risk due to interaction of older age and diabetes on mortality from COVID-19.Results: By the end of 2020, the reported morbidity and mortality were 0.8% and 216.8 per 100,000 population, respectively. The seroprevalence reached 18.5%. The morbidity was almost twice among 65+ years of age, but the mortality increased by1,026 times among older persons. Diabetes and older age jointly increased the risk of COVID-19 mortality. Hispanics had twice the risk of reported morbidity than non-Hispanics. Essential workers had 7-times the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection than persons engaged in other occupations. The lockdown mandated by a local judge on October 7, resulted in the control of the pandemic surge at the end of 2020.Conclusions: Diabetes mellitus contributed to excess mortality among Hispanics during the COVID-19 pandemic |
