Alliance for Pandemic Preparedness
October 6, 2020
The Relationship between Neighborhood Poverty and COVID-19 Mortality within Racial/ethnic Groups (Cook County Illinois)
Category: Article Summary
Topic: Public Health Policy and Practice
Keywords (Tags): disparities
- [Pre-print, not peer reviewed] Using census and individual-level mortality data in Cook County, IL, Feldman et al. found that racial/ethnic inequalities in COVID-19 mortality are only partly attributable to differences in socioeconomic position. Among those in the highest-poverty quartile, Black and Hispanic/Latinx young people shared similar mortality rates with white young people, while in the lowest-poverty quartile mortality rates were nearly three-fold higher among younger Black and Hispanic/Latinx people compared young white people. Among the older age groups, white people in the highest-poverty quartile had a lower mortality rate than Black and Hispanic/Latinx people in the lowest-poverty quartile.
Feldman et al. (Oct 6, 2020). The Relationship between Neighborhood Poverty and COVID-19 Mortality within Racial/ethnic Groups (Cook County Illinois). Pre-print downloaded Oct 6 from https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.10.04.20206318