Asians have the lowest death rate from the disease. Among those who have died, 7.2 percent were Asian.
I think this just means that the percentage of Asians in NYC isn't all that high.
Original stories from months ago was that Asians were most vulnerable, possibly for genetic reasons. I have no idea if that is still a theory, but the wording here ("death rate") seems imply that Asians most invulnerable. I find that hard to believe. I don't think it's about "death rate" I think it's about "percentage of deaths" which is different. Of course, I'm no statistician, so my perception of the wording may be off.
That is sloppy, on the part of the reporter. The article cited lists Asian fatalities as 8.4 per 100,000.
Hispanic/Latino 22.8
Black/African American 19.8
White 10.2
Asian 8.4
All those numbers are disturbingly high, but especially the first two. Fauci hinted at racial differences in pre-existing conditions as an explanation, but that doesn’t seem to be an adequate one.
“As of 2015-2016, nearly half of Latino (47 percent) and Black adults (46.8) had obesity while adult obesity rates among White and Asian adults were 37.9 percent and 12.7 percent respectively.”
https://www.tfah.org/report-details/stateofobesity2019/
Time to send “The Obesity Code” to every non-Asian home.....< / sarcasm >