🚨New Paper (Pre-Print)🚨
As many have noted, one of the keys to addressing the racial disparities in #COVID19 is ensuring comprehensive race/ethnicity data. Yet, as late as mid-April, 22 states were still not reporting such data on mortality. Here's what else we found...
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As many have noted, one of the keys to addressing the racial disparities in #COVID19 is ensuring comprehensive race/ethnicity data. Yet, as late as mid-April, 22 states were still not reporting such data on mortality. Here's what else we found...
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As of April 21st, of the 28 states reporting race/ethnicity data related to #COVID19 mortality, we found significant variation in the quality of such reporting, with some states reporting as high as >40% missingness in these data.
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Among the states (any NYC) that reported race/ethnicity data, we estimated a 3.5-fold higher mortality rate in Blacks vs. whites and a nearly 2-fold higher mortality rate in the Latinx vs. white population.
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There's a lot to learn about the impact the #COVID19 pandemic will have on our nation as a whole. Yet, the disproportionate toll it is taking on the most vulnerable is evident, and may even be an underestimation. Look forward to learning more from many working in this space. 4/4
P.S. Because it usually helps to have a link to a paper in order to read said paper... ⤵️
Link: medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
Link: medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
