Structural Racism and COVID-19 in the USA: a County-Level Empirical Analysis.

ABSTRACT: Substantial health disparities exist across race/ethnicity in the USA, with Black Americans often most affected. The current COVID-19 pandemic is no different. While there have been ample studies describing racial disparities in COVID-19 outcomes, relatively few have established an empirical link between these disparities and structural racism. Such empirical analyses are critically important to help defuse "victim-blaming" narratives about why minority communities have been badly hit by COVID-19. In this paper, we explore the empirical link between structural racism and disparities in county-level COVID-19 outcomes by county racial composition. Using negative binomial regression models, we examine how five measures of county-level residential segregation and racial disparities in socioeco

SUBMITTER: Tan SB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7815192 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature