COVID Data - Racial Disparities

High rates of COVID-19 infection among essential and frontline workers put a spotlight on the underinsured—often workers of color. To attain equity for the lowest paid and most essential frontline workers of color, the American health insurance and health care systems need radical restructuring.

New analysis from IHME highlights the true toll of the pandemic.

Southwest Virginia’s rate 2.4X state figure JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) – COVID-19’s delta variant is killing Northeast Tennesseans and Southwest Virginians at much higher per capi…

The World Health Organization estimate of 115,000 global health worker deaths covers the period from January 2020 to May 2021. News outlets cover other covid news, including the death of parents of…

The latest Covid-19 deaths were concentrated in the South, and included more younger people than before. Every age group under 55 saw its highest death toll of the pandemic this August.

'Semantic narrowing' isn’t exactly a household term, but maybe it should be.

To fight the raging U.S. pandemic, researchers need to better understand its uneven burden

More than four out of five people in Colorado who have received COVID-19 vaccine booster shots are white, but it’s not clear how much of the gap is new or an echo of the disparities in who wa…

During the "first wave" of COVID-19 in the United States, Rajan Chakrabarty, the Harold D. Jolley Career Development Associate Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, learned that African Americans made up 47% of the population in St. Louis, but nearly three quarters of COVID-19 cases.

Deaths among Blacks and Native Americans were 3 to 4 times higher and Latino deaths were nearly 2 times higher than in white populations, the study found.

U.S. deaths have been disproportionately high among Hispanic, Black, and Indigenous communities and in rural areas—highlighting vast inequities in the health system.

Health Center Providers use a population health management tool to improve their care quality and eliminate health disparities.

Broad data collection can improve precision medicine, predicative analytics, artificial intelligence, eliminating care disparities.

This cross-sectional study evaluates whether rates of COVID-19–associated hospitalization, intensive care unit admission, or in-hospital death are higher among racial and ethnic minority groups compared with non-Hispanic White persons.

One study shows a 30% lower vaccination rate, and another higher rates of severe disease and death.

Background: Although racial/ethnic disparities in U.S. COVID-19 death rates are striking, focusing on COVID-19 deaths alone may underestimate the true effect of the pandemic on disparities. Excess death estimates capture deaths both directly and indirectly caused by COVID-19. Objective: To estimate U.S. excess deaths by racial/ethnic group. Design: Surveillance study. Setting: United States. Participants: All decedents. Measurements: Excess deaths and excess deaths per 100 000 persons from March to December 2020 were estimated by race/ethnicity, sex, age group, and cause of death, using provisional death certificate data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and U.S. Census Bureau population estimates. Results: An estimated 2.88 million deaths occurred between March and December 2020. Compared with the number of expected deaths based on 2019 data, 477 200 excess deaths occurred during this period, with 74% attributed to COVID-19. Age-standardized excess deaths per 100 000 persons among Black, American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN), and Latino males and females were more than double those in White and Asian males and females. Non–COVID-19 excess deaths also disproportionately affected Black, AI/AN, and Latino persons. Compared with White males and females, non–COVID-19 excess deaths per 100 000 persons were 2 to 4 times higher in Black, AI/AN, and Latino males and females, including deaths due to diabetes, heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, and Alzheimer disease. Excess deaths in 2020 resulted in substantial widening of racial/ethnic disparities in all-cause mortality from 2019 to 2020. Limitations: Completeness and availability of provisional CDC data; no estimates of precision around results. Conclusion: There were profound racial/ethnic disparities in excess deaths in the United States in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in rapid increases in racial/ethnic disparities in all-cause mortality between 2019 and 2020. Primary Funding Source: National Institutes of Health Intramural Research Program.

New York City will require municipal workers to be vaccinated, a shift that covers more than 300,000 employees, and which removes an option to take regular tests instead.

Andrew Stokes and co-workers report a county-level analysis of excess deaths owing to COVID-19 in the United States.

More than 15 months into the pandemic, the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 is nearing 600,000. But COVID-19 deaths may be underestimated by 20 percent, according to a new study.

A study published Monday confirms that the pandemic hit Black Americans, Native Americans and Latinos far harder than Whites early on, killing greater proportions of these groups.

The lack of complete data is unacceptable.

While the federal, state, and survey data all show narrowing racial disparities in COVID-19 vaccination rates over time, they vary in the magnitude of this narrowing, with some surveys showing that…

This brief highlights key issues to consider for the vaccination rollout to younger children.

This decision analytical model quantifies disparities in uptake of COVID-19 vaccination by race and ethnicity and models alternative scenarios of persistent differential uptake and reduced barriers to access.

The median vaccination rate of white American adults was found to be 1.3 times higher than Black and Hispanic adults.

News headlines during the pandemic have highlighted the disproportionate effect of COVID-19 across certain racial and ethnic groups in the United States. Available data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show disparities in everything from testing and vaccination rates to cases, hospitalizations, and deaths. For example, as of July, American Indian/Alaska Native people died from COVID-19 at a rate 2.8 times higher than White people, when taking age into account.

From its earliest days, the coronavirus hit Black people and neighborhoods the hardest, and the pattern has not changed since.

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