Hispanic Americans
Hispanic Americans are Americans who are descendants of people from Spain or Hispanic America. More generally, this demographic includes all Americans who speak the Spanish language natively and identify as Hispanic. As of 2018, the Census Bureau estimated that there were some 59.9 million Hispanics living the United States. "Origin" can be viewed as the ancestry, nationality group, lineage or country of birth of the person or the person's parents or ancestors before their arrival in the United States. People who identify as Spanish or Hispanic may be of any race. As one of the only two specifically designated categories of ethnicity in the United States, Hispanics form a pan-ethnicity incorporating a diversity of inter-related cultural and linguistic heritages. Most Hispanic Americans are of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Salvadoran, Dominican, Guatemalan or Colombian origin.
Study: Hispanic Americans have died of COVID-19 at disproportionately high rate compared to whites because of workplace exposure to the virus. Patterns revealed in the data ideally will discourage what amounts to victim-blaming—attributing an unequally high rate of COVID-19 deaths among Hispanics.