Health Equity

Study suggests nonwhite, poor, less educated at high risk for COVID death

Abstract: Nonwhite Americans, those with low incomes or less than a high school education, and veterans were much more likely to die of COVID-19 than others in a simulation study published yesterday in PLOS Medicine, backing the findings of previous research.

Publication: CIDRAP

Date Published: January 11, 2021

Author(s): Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy

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