Timing of Infection as a Key Driver of Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Coronavirus Disease 2019 Mortality Rates During the Prevaccine Period.

ABSTRACT: Disparities in coronavirus disease 2019 mortality are driven by inequalities in group-specific incidence rates (IRs), case fatality rates (CFRs), and their interaction. For emerging infections, such as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, group-specific IRs and CFRs change on different time scales, and inequities in these measures may reflect different social and medical mechanisms. To be useful tools for public health surveillance and policy, analyses of changing mortality rate disparities must independently address changes in IRs and CFRs. However, this is rarely done. In this analysis, we examine the separate contributions of disparities in the timing of infection-reflecting differential infection risk factors such as residential segregation, housing, and participation in es

SUBMITTER: Naraharisetti R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11666699 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature