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Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Dear John,

An ahead-of-print article released today examines COVID-19 racial/ethnic
disparities in California.

Disparities In California COVID-19 Cases

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In a paper released today, Marissa Reitsma and coauthors analyze
COVID-19 disparities

in terms of structural risk exposures, testing, test positivity, and
COVID-19 cases in California, the state with the most COVID-19 deaths in
the country.

They found that, from March 22 through October 3, 2020, among cases with
known race/ethnicity, 70 percent were among Latino people, compared with
their 39.1 percent state population share. In comparison, White people
were underrepresented, with only 19.1 percent of cases while making up
37.5 percent of the state population.  

Further, death rates during that time for both Latino and Black
populations were more than 1.5 times higher than those in the state's
White population.

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Today on Health Affairs Blog, Lauren Gerlach and Mona N. Shah discuss
Section 1115 Medicaid demonstration waivers
,
which allow states to make programmatic changes that are not otherwise
permitted under federal law, provided the changes promote the goals of
the Medicaid program and are budget neutral.

Also, the Physicians for Human Rights Asylum Policy Working Group argues
that, without a well-informed thematic framing and clear identification
of guiding values, the new administration will also struggle to take a
rights-based and evidence-based approach

to the complex challenges facing asylum seekers.

Finally, Meg Perret and coauthors assert that there is sufficient
evidence to suggest that the conditions of the pandemic amplify existing
inequalities experienced by trans and gender-expansive people
.

Elevating Voices: Asian American and Pacific Islander American Heritage
Month: In a 2016 Health Affairs Blog post, Howard Koh discussed the
importance of promoting tobacco cessation services for Medicaid
beneficiaries
.
"While most smokers want to quit, they may be largely unaware that
Medicaid-covered tobacco cessation services exist," he wrote.

Your Daily Digest

Racial/Ethnic Disparities In COVID-19 Exposure Risk, Testing, And Cases
At The Subcounty Level In California

By Marissa B. Reitsma, Anneke L. Claypool, Jason Vargo, Priya B. Shete,
Ryan McCorvie, William H. Wheeler, David A. Rocha, Jennifer F. Myers,
Erin L. Murray, Brooke Bregman, Deniz M. Dominguez, Alyssa D. Nguyen,
Charsey Porse, Curtis L. Fritz, Seema Jain, James P. Watt, Joshua A.
Salomon, and Jeremy D. Goldhaber-Fiebert

As States Continue To Experiment In Medicaid, Look To Section 1115
Waiver Evaluations To Understand What Works

Lauren Gerlach and Mona N. Shah

Re-Imagining The Asylum System: Recommendations From Asylum Medicine
Experts

Physicians for Human Rights Asylum Policy Working Group

COVID-19 Data On Trans And Gender-Expansive People, Stat!

Meg Perret, Kai Jillson, Ann Caroline Danielsen, Mai-Han Trinh, Dougie
Zubizarreta, and L. Zachary DuBois

The Importance Of Promoting Tobacco Cessation Services For Medicaid
Beneficiaries

Howard Koh

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