Racial And Ethnic Disparities In Covid 19 Mortality Among Children And

Racial And Ethnic Disparities In Covid 19 Mortality Among Children And This cross sectional analysis used publicly available covid 19 mortality data from the national center for health statistics 4 from february 2020 to september 2023 for 6 defined racial and ethnic groups: hispanic, non hispanic american indian or alaska native, non hispanic asian, non hispanic black, non hispanic native hawaiian or pacific islander, and non hispanic white. The covkid project has used these data to report population mortality rates for kids (through september 19, 2020), as noted in figure 2 below: these mortality rates are relatively low, ranging from 0.5 to 3.9 deaths per million children, but racial ethnic disparities are high. compared to non hispanic white children:.

Racial And Ethnic Disparities In Covid 19 Mortality Among Children And As of august 19, 2021, more than 209 million people across the world had been infected by covid 19, with the united states accounting for more than 36 million cases and 618 000 deaths. 1 covid 19 disproportionately affects racial and ethnic minority groups. 2 to reduce exposure and mortality rates, it is critical to identify the disparities associated with greater occurrences of covid 19 among. According to lopez et al, mortality rates resulting from congenital heart disease significantly declined during 1999–2017 among all races ethnicities, although disparities in mortality rates persisted among nhb children in comparison with nhw children; the highest mortality rate was in infants (<1 year) of all races ethnicities (30). Despite similar median lengths of hospital stay across racial ethnic groups 7,8, and despite race not being associated with an increased risk of in hospital death from covid 19 9, minority. Disparities in disease outcomes by racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic status in the us are not new. covid 19 has served to emphasize the deadliness of these disparities and has made social conditions far worse for many black, hispanic, and american indian persons living in the us. but these inequities are not immutable.