Alliance for Pandemic Preparedness

June 9, 2020

Improved Measurement of Racial/ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Mortality in the United States

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  • [pre-print, not peer reviewed] Using CDC data, Goldstein et al. found that age-and-place adjusted COVID-19 death rates are 80% higher for blacks and over 50% higher for Hispanics relative to whites on a national level. Wide variations in mortality disparities were observed on the state level.  

Goldstein and Atherwood. (May 23, 2020). Improved Measurement of Racial/ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Mortality in the United States. Preprint downloaded June 9 from https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.21.20109116