In an ahead-of-print article released this week, 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.

On Tuesday, Health Affairs hosted the second of two July issue briefings. "Immigrant Health: Evidence & Policy Issues" focused on effects of recent US immigration policy on health care, coverage, and outcomes for immigrants in the United States.

Featured authors presented their research published in the July issue, Borders, Immigrants, and Health.

A video of the briefing is available on our website. (Also see our first July issue briefing, focused on border health.)

On Health Affairs Blog, Brian Blase, an assistant to the president at the White House’s National Economic Council from January 2017 through June 2019, argued that, without proper context, the claim that 31 million Americans were enrolled in coverage under the Affordable Care Act is misleading.

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