Black–White Risk Differentials in COVID-19 (SARS-COV2) Transmission, Mortality and Case Fatality in the United States: Translational Epidemiologic Perspective and Challenges

Holmes, Laurens; Enwere, Michael; Williams, Janille; Ogundele, Benjamin; P. Chavan, Prachi; Piccoli, Tatiana; Chinaka, Chinacherem; Comeaux, Camillia; Pelaez, Lavisha; Okundaye, Osatohamwen; Stalnaker, Leslie; Kalle, Fanta; Deepika, Keeti; Philipcien, Glen; Poleon, Maura; Ogungbade, Gbadebo; Elmi, Hikma; John, Valescia; Dabney, Kirk

doi:10.3390/ijerph17124322

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Black–White Risk Differentials in COVID-19 (SARS-COV2) Transmission, Mortality and Case Fatality in the United States: Translational Epidemiologic Perspective and Challenges

Published in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health • Jun 17, 2020

Authors:

Laurens Holmes

Michael Enwere

Janille Williams

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Social and health inequities predispose vulnerable populations to adverse morbidity and mortality outcomes of epidemics and pandemics. While racial disparities in cumulative incidence (CmI) and mortality from the influenza pandemics of 1918 and 2009 implicated Blacks with survival disadv...

Subject

Demography

Medicine

Case fatality rate

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