Health Equity

Medicare data: Blacks likelier to be hospitalized for COVID

Abstract: Blacks were nearly four times more likely than whites to be hospitalized with COVID-19 among people with Medicare, the government said Monday.

Publication: Associated Press

Date Published: June 22, 2020

Author(s): Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar

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