
How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected energy insecurity in the United States?
Key Concepts Infectious and non-communicable diseases impact marginalized and socially vulnerable populations at disproportionate rates. In the United States, differences in illness and death rates due to COVID-19 align with differences in income, class, race, ethnicity, gender, and other and other social conditions. Hispanic, Black, NHOPI and AIAN people are from 1.7 to 2 times as likely to die from COVID-19