Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Mortality

Jake Ryann C Sumibcay; Dennis Kunichoff; Mary T Bassett

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.11656

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Mortality

JAMA Netw Open. 2024 May 1;7(5):e2411656. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.11656.

Authors

Jake Ryann C Sumibcay^{1

2}, Dennis Kunichoff¹, Mary T Bassett¹

Affiliations

¹ FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This cross-sectional study examines racial and ethnic differences in COVID-19 mortality in the United States across 4 case surges between February 2020 and September 2023.

MeSH terms

Adult
Aged
COVID-19* / ethnology
COVID-19* / mortality
Ethnicity / statistics & numerical data
Female
Health Status Disparities*
Healthcare Disparities / ethnology
Healthcare Disparities / statistics & numerical data
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Racial Groups / statistics & numerical data
SARS-CoV-2*
United States / epidemiology