In an ahead-of-print paper released this week, Elizabeth Wrigley-Field and colleagues, using death certificate data, characterized the association of neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage with pre-2020 mortality, COVID-19 mortality, and 2020 excess mortality in the state of Minnesota.

"In 2020 COVID-19 mortality rates and excess mortality rates in Minnesota were substantially higher for BIPOC [Black, Indigenous, People of Color] living in the Metro region than for all other race-region combinations," they found.

"White people, on average, had higher prepandemic mortality than BIPOC in similar neighborhoods," they explained. However, "COVID-19 mortality and excess mortality were substantially higher for Metro-area BIPOC than for Metro-area White people living in similarly disadvantaged neighborhoods," reflecting a notable increase in the racial disparity.

This week on Health Affairs Blog, Rachel Sachs discussed how the new Biden administration drug pricing plan and the Trump administration’s May 2018 blueprint diverge in identifying policy solutions.

And Katie Keith and coauthors discussed the No Surprises Act protections, which go into effect on January 1, 2022.

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