A First Look: Disparities in COVID-19 Mortality Among US-Born and Foreign-Born Minnesota Residents.

ABSTRACT: This research brief provides one of the first examinations of the impact of COVID-19 mortality on immigrant communities in the United States. In the absence of national data, we examine COVID-19 deaths in Minnesota, historically one of the major U.S. refugee destinations, using individual-level death certificates obtained from the Minnesota Department of Health Office of Vital Records. Minnesota's foreign-born crude COVID-19 death rates were similar to rates for the US-born, but COVID-19 death rates adjusted for age and gender were twice as high among the foreign-born. Among foreign-born Latinos, in particular, COVID-19 mortality was concentrated in relatively younger, prime working age men. Moreover, the place-based and temporal patterns of COVID-19 mortality were quite distinct, with the

SUBMITTER: Horner KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8326639 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature