Alliance for Pandemic Preparedness

May 19, 2021

Modeling the Impact of Racial and Ethnic Disparities on COVID-19 Epidemic Dynamics

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  • A SARS-CoV-2 transmission model fitted to prevalence data on anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies (n>15,000) collected in April 2021 from New York and matched with census data found that the burden of infection largely fell on minority populations until the herd immunity threshold was reached.

Ma et al. (May 18, 2021). Modeling the Impact of Racial and Ethnic Disparities on COVID-19 Epidemic Dynamics. ELife. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.66601