The Magnitude of Black/Hispanic Disparity in COVID-19 Mortality Across United States Counties During the First Waves of the COVID-19 Pandemic

• Main Authors: Cindy Im (Author), Lalani L. Munasinghe (Author), José M. Martínez (Author), William Letsou (Author), Farideh Bagherzadeh-Khiabani (Author), Soudabeh Marin (Author), Yutaka Yasui (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2021-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objectives: To quantify the Black/Hispanic disparity in COVID-19 mortality in the United States (US).Methods: 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 re...