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Improved measurement of racial/ethnic disparities in COVID-19 mortality in the United States

2020-05-23 epidemiology Title + abstract only
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Different estimation methods produce diverging accounts of racial/ethnic disparities in COVID-19 mortality in the United States. The CDCs decision to present the racial/ethnic distribution of COVID-19 deaths at the state level alongside re-weighted racial/ethnic population distributions--in effect, a geographic adjustment--makes it seem that Whites have the highest death rates. Age adjustment procedures used by others, including the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, lead to ...

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