Health Equity

To understand who’s dying of Covid-19, look to social factors like race more than preexisting diseases

Abstract: The MIT researchers’ key finding is that the underlying reasons for the link between race and death rate are not the usual suspects.

Publication: STAT

Date Published: June 15, 2020

Author(s): Sharon Begley

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