US racial and ethnic data for COVID-19 cases: still missing in action

Lancet. 2020 Nov 7;396(10261):e81. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32220-0. Epub 2020 Oct 22.

Authors

Nancy Krieger¹, Christian Testa², William P Hanage³, Jarvis T Chen²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Electronic address: nkrieger@hsph.harvard.edu.
² Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
³ Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus
COVID-19
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S.
Coronavirus Infections / ethnology*
Ethnicity / statistics & numerical data*
Humans
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral / ethnology*
Racial Groups / statistics & numerical data*
SARS-CoV-2
United States / epidemiology