The Magnitude of Black/Hispanic Disparity in COVID-19 Mortality Across United States Counties During the First Waves of the COVID-19 Pandemic
To quantify the Black/Hispanic disparity in COVID-19 mortality in the United States (US). COVID-19 deaths in all US counties nationwide were analyzed to estimate COVID-19 mortality rate ratios by county-level proportions of Black/Hispanic residents, using mixed-effects Poisson regression. Excess COV...
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Veröffentlicht in: | International journal of public health 2021-09, Vol.66, p.1604004 |
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Zusammenfassung: | To quantify the Black/Hispanic disparity in COVID-19 mortality in the United States (US).
COVID-19 deaths in all US counties nationwide were analyzed to estimate COVID-19 mortality rate ratios by county-level proportions of Black/Hispanic residents, using mixed-effects Poisson regression. Excess COVID-19 mortality counts, relative to predicted under a counterfactual scenario of no racial/ethnic disparity gradient, were estimated.
County-level COVID-19 mortality rates increased monotonically with county-level proportions of Black and Hispanic residents, up to 5.4-fold (≥43% Black) and 11.6-fold (≥55% Hispanic) higher compared to counties with |
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ISSN: | 1661-8564 1661-8556 1661-8564 |
DOI: | 10.3389/ijph.2021.1604004 |