Assessment of Community-Level Disparities in Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Infections and Deaths in Large US Metropolitan Areas

Samrachana Adhikari; Nicholas P Pantaleo; Justin M Feldman; Olugbenga Ogedegbe; Lorna Thorpe; Andrea B Troxel

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.16938

Assessment of Community-Level Disparities in Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Infections and Deaths in Large US Metropolitan Areas

JAMA Netw Open. 2020 Jul 1;3(7):e2016938. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.16938.

Authors

Samrachana Adhikari¹, Nicholas P Pantaleo¹, Justin M Feldman¹, Olugbenga Ogedegbe^{1

2}, Lorna Thorpe¹, Andrea B Troxel¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Population Health, New York University Grossman School of Medicine.
² Department of Medicine, New York University Grossman School of Medicine.

Abstract

This cross-sectional study examines the association of neighborhood race/ethnicity and poverty with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infections and related deaths in urban US counties.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus
COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections / mortality*
Cross-Sectional Studies
Humans
Minority Groups / statistics & numerical data*
Pandemics*
Pneumonia, Viral / mortality*
Poverty / statistics & numerical data*
SARS-CoV-2
United States / epidemiology
Urban Population / statistics & numerical data*

Grants and funding

U54 MD000538/MD/NIMHD NIH HHS/United States