The City of St. Louis reported 9 deaths from COVID-19 and 30 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, April 27. The city has now has reported 1,067 cases and 57 deaths since the onset of the pandemic.
Of the 1067 COVID-19 cases reported in the city, 702 (or 65.8%) were black. Of the 57 victims of the pandemic, 38 (66.7%) were black. Only 45.9% of the city’s population is black, according to U.S. Census data.
“African Americans continue to be disproportionately impacted by COVID-19,” said Dr. Fredrick Echols, St. Louis health director.
With 57 reported deaths from the pandemic in 1067 reported cases, 5.3% of the people in the city who tested positive have died.
A communications representative for the St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force said its incident commander Dr. Alex Garza always cautions against looking at day-to-day numbers versus longer term trends.
The task force’s modeling says the peak for hospitalizations and ICU patients for the region would take place, Saturday, April 25. However, hospitalizations have not yet started to decrease.