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Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Population-Level Covid-19 Mortality

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Gross, Cary P., Essien, Utibe R., Pasha, Saamir, Gross, Jacob R., Wang, Shi-yi, Nunez-Smith, Marcella·2020·Journal of General Internal Medicine

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  • Caregiver loss is even more heavily concentrated in vulnerable populations than shown in our results.

    “Our ability to observe more specific geographic and demographic disparities is constrained by the limitations of available data, but we can infer from other analyses that caregiver loss is even more heavily concentrated in vulnerable populations than shown in our results.”

    From Parental and Other Caregiver Loss Due to COVID-19 in the United States: Prevalence by Race, State, Relationship, and Child Age (2023) · cites this paper as [11]

    The Results report substantially higher COVID-19 mortality among Black and Latinx populations than among White populations. The Discussion says unadjusted mortality rates can underestimate those disparities. The paper does not examine caregiver loss, so it supports the mortality-disparity basis for the inference but not the stated concentration of caregiver loss. (LLM, conf=0.83)

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  • Low-income individuals are at highest risk of death from COVID-19, and low-income counties faced disproportionately large shares of COVID-19 deaths, even after controlling for other indicators of wellbeing.

    “Low-income individuals are at highest risk of death from COVID-19 and low-income counties faced disproportionately large shares of COVID-19 deaths, even after controlling for other indicators of wellbeing in two studies focused on individual and communitylevel associations with COVID-19 mortality rates of all persons [11, 28].”

    From Parental and Other Caregiver Loss Due to COVID-19 in the United States: Prevalence by Race, State, Relationship, and Child Age (2023) · cites this paper as [11]

    The Methods and Results (pages unavailable in our copy) analyze COVID-19 mortality by race and ethnicity, with adjustment for age. Searches for income, poverty, county-level mortality, and wellbeing found no passage addressing whether low-income individuals or counties had higher mortality. (LLM, conf=0.76)

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  1. [1]APM Research Lab Staff. The color of Coronovirus: Covid-19 deaths by race and ethnicity in the U.S. Associated Press News. 2020.

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Authors
Gross, C. P., Essien, U. R., Pasha, S., Gross, J. R., Wang, S.-Y., & Nunez-Smith, M.
Affiliations
  • Yale Cancer Center (US)
  • University of Pittsburgh (US)
  • Tufts University (US)
Corresponding author
Gross, Cary P.
Venue
Journal of General Internal Medicine
Published
2020-08-04
Volume
35
Issue
10
Pages
3097-3099
ISSN
  • 0884-8734 (ISSN-L)
  • 1525-1497
OpenAlex
W3046980818
Cited by
410
References
2
Citations by year
2026: 9 · 2025: 16 · 2024: 26 · 2023: 65 · 2022: 106 · 2021: 136 · 2020: 51
FWCI
14.23
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Journal of General Internal Medicine (publishedVersion)
  • medRxiv (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • Pfizer
  • Yale University
  • National Comprehensive Cancer Network
  • Flatiron Health
  • National Institutes of Health (UL1TR001863)
  • National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Modeling and Simulation › COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Infectious Diseases › COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Healthcare Systems and Challenges
Keywords
COVID-19 mortality, racial and ethnic disparities, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, age-adjusted mortality, indirect standardization, standardized mortality ratio, racial disparities in health, COVID-19 pandemic, United States states, New York City, New Jersey, New York, California, Texas
MeSH terms
Data Accuracy, Betacoronavirus, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Black or African American, Cross-Sectional Studies, Female, Hispanic or Latino, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Pneumonia, Viral, United States, Coronavirus Infections, White People, Health Status Disparities, Pandemics

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