This research brief provides one of the first examinations of the impact of COVID-19 mortality on immigrant communities in the United States. In the absence of national data, we examine COVID-19 deaths in Minnesota, historically one of the major U.S. refugee destinations, using individual-level death certificates obtained from the Minnesota Department of Health Office of Vital Records. Minnesota’s foreign-born crude COVID-19 death rates were similar to rates for the US-born, but COVID-19 death rates adjusted for age and gender were twice as high among the foreign-born. Among foreign-born Latinos, in particular, COVID-19 mortality was concentrated in relatively younger, prime working age men. Moreover, the place-based and temporal patterns of COVID-19 mortality were quite distinct, with the majority of US-born mortality concentrated in long-term care facilities and late in 2020, and foreign-born mortality occurring outside of residential institutions and earlier in the pandemic. The disparate impacts of COVID-19 for foreign-born Minnesotans demonstrate the need for targeted public health planning and intervention in immigrant communities.

本研究简报提供了对 COVID-19 死亡率对美国移民社区影响的首次检验之一。在没有国家数据的情况下，我们使用从明尼苏达州卫生部生命记录办公室获得的个人死亡证明，检查了明尼苏达州历史上是美国主要难民目的地之一的 COVID-19 死亡人数。明尼苏达州在外国出生的 COVID-19 粗死亡率与美国出生的死亡率相似，但在外国出生的人中，根据年龄和性别调整后的 COVID-19 死亡率是其两倍。特别是在外国出生的拉丁裔中，COVID-19 死亡率集中在相对年轻、处于黄金工作年龄的男性身上。此外，COVID-19 死亡率的地点和时间模式非常不同，大多数美国出生的死亡率集中在长期护理机构和 2020 年末，而外国出生的死亡率则发生在住宿机构之外和大流行的早期。COVID-19 对外国出生的明尼苏达人的不同影响表明，需要对移民社区进行有针对性的公共卫生规划和干预。