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Title: | Comparison ofWeighted and Unweighted Population Data to Assess Inequities in Coronavirus Disease 2019 Deaths by Race/Ethnicity Reported by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
Authors: | Cowger, Tori L. Davis, Brigette A. Etkins, Onisha S. Makofane, Keletso Lawrence, Jourdyn A. Bassett, Mary T. Krieger, Nancy |
Keywords: | Sociology |
Issue Date: | 28-Jul-2020 |
Publisher: | JAMA Network Open |
Citation: | Cowger, T. L., Davis, B. A., Etkins, O. S., Makofane, K., Lawrence, J. A., Bassett, M. T., & Krieger, N. (2020). Comparison of weighted and unweighted population data to assess inequities in coronavirus disease 2019 deaths by race/ethnicity reported by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. JAMA network open, 3(7), e2016933-e2016933. |
Abstract: | Surveillance and mortality data show large inequities in the impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) by race/ethnicity.1 Currently, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) does not report mortality rates by race/ethnicity. Instead, the percentage distribution of COVID-19 deaths by race/ethnicity is presented alongside a weighted distribution of the population from the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics,2 which weights each county’s population by its share of COVID-19 deaths, not population (Figure).We investigated whether the resulting magnitude of inequities using the weighted population underestimates those observed using the total population (unweighted). |
URI: | http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/979 |
Appears in Collections: | American Regions |
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