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Death, Inequality, and the Pandemic in the Nation's Capital

2022-12-04 public and global health Title + abstract only
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Abrupt changes in mortality rates and life expectancy allow us to understand how shocks like COVID-19 can exacerbate health inequalities across groups. We look at Washington, D.C., a major city with a diverse population and long-standing socio-economic divisions, to describe the all-cause mortality trends from 2015 to 2021 by age, sex, race, and ward of residence. We report differences in cause-specific mortality pre- and post-COVID-19 outbreak and estimate the Years of Life Lost (YLL) attributa...

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