Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Age-Specific All-Cause Mortality During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The end of the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) provides an opportunity to fully describe pandemic-associated racial and ethnic mortality disparities. Age-specific excess mortality differences have important downstream implications, especially in minoritized race and ethnicity populations.

Objectives

To characterize overall and age-specific all-cause excess mortality by race and ethnicity during the COVID-19 PHE and assess whether measured differences reflected changes from prepandemic disparities.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study analyzed data of all US residents and decedents during the COVID-19 PHE, aggregated by observed race and ethnicity (at time of death) and age. Statistical analysis was performed from March 2020 to

SUBMITTER: Faust JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11581672 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature