COVID-19 is Out of Proportion in African Americans. This Will Come as No Surprise…

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dc.contributor.authorFouad, Mona N.
dc.contributor.authorRuffin, John
dc.contributor.authorVickers, Selwyn M.
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-15T19:08:24Z
dc.date.available2021-02-15T19:08:24Z
dc.date.issued2020-05-20
dc.description.abstractAs the COVID-19 crisis unfolds, it is clear that the disease is affecting African American populations disproportionately. For example, in our home state of Alabama, African Americans comprise 37.5% of laboratory-confirmed cases and 47.4% of deaths, despite only being 26.8% of the population, according to publicly available statistics on April 21, 2020. In Louisiana, 56.25% of COVID-related deaths were among Blacks, even though only 32.7% of the population is black. In Michigan, while 14.1% of the population is black, 33% of COVID-19 cases are among Blacks and African Americans, as are 40% of the deaths. However, none of this should come as a surprise.en_US
dc.description.urihttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7237375/en_US
dc.description.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjmed.2020.04.008en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/89xu-8dyg
dc.identifier.citationFouad, M. N., Ruffin, J., & Vickers, S. M. (2020). COVID-19 is Out of Proportion in African Americans. This Will Come as No Surprise…. The American journal of medicine, S0002-9343(20)30411-3. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjmed.2020.04.008en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/26867
dc.publisherThe American Journal of Medicineen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtMaryland Center for Health Equity
dc.relation.isAvailableAtDigital Repository at the University of Maryland
dc.relation.isAvailableAtUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md)
dc.subjectCoronavirus, COVID-19, Pandemic, Race, Ethnicity, Disparity, African Americanen_US
dc.titleCOVID-19 is Out of Proportion in African Americans. This Will Come as No Surprise…en_US
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