Immigrant mortality advantage in the United States during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To investigate the mortality impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on US-born and foreign-born populations by race and Hispanic origin in the United States in 2020.

Methods

Death records from the National Center for Health Statistics and population data from CDC WONDER were used to estimate (1) age-standardized all-cause and cause-specific mortality at ages 25+, 25-64, and 65+ in 2017-2019 and 2020 by nativity, race, Hispanic origin, and sex; (2) changes in mortality between these two periods; and (3) the cause-specific contributions to these changes.

Results

Mortality increased in 2020 relative to 2017-2019 for all racial and Hispanic-origin groups. Adjusting for age, mortality increases were larger at ages 25+ among foreign-born males (390 deaths for 100,000 re

SUBMITTER: Paglino E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10861242 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature