Thus far, cases have been broken down publicly by location, race, gender and age, but not sexuality or gender identity.
NEW YORK, April 30 - State lawmakers urged U.S. officials on Thursday to determine how many coronavirus patients are LGBT+, saying the data could be critical to the health of the gay and transgender community amid the pandemic.
Kenyatta recently introduced a bill calling for state government forms that collect demographic information to include an LGBT+ identification option. Health departments in New York, Louisiana, New Jersey andMichigan, states hardest hit by the coronavirus so far, also said they were not collecting LGBT+ data.
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