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Wednesday, July 21, 2021
Dear John,
An ahead-of-print article provides new
information on socioeconomic, racial, and ethnic disparities in early COVID-19 deaths.
Disparities In COVID-19 Mortality Rates
In an ahead-of-print article released today, Sarah Miller and coauthors provide new research on how COVID-19 mortality in the US varied by socioeconomic characteristics, race, and ethnicity during the beginning of the pandemic.
The authors found particularly large increases in mortality among adults living in correctional facilities or in health care–related group quarters, those without health insurance coverage, those with family incomes below the federal poverty level, and those in occupations with limited work-from-home options.
“Black people in the highest income group experienced an increase of mortality more than 3.5 times larger than the increase in mortality experienced by the poorest White people,” they reported.
Today on Health Affairs Blog, Tim Gronniger and coauthors argue that Congress has an opportunity to harness the significant energy behind payment reform and channel it into clear and strong payment incentives for providers.
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