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. 2020 Sep;35(9):2791-2793.
doi: 10.1007/s11606-020-05971-3. Epub 2020 Jun 24.

Association Between State-Level Income Inequality and COVID-19 Cases and Mortality in the USA

Carlos Irwin A Oronce  1   2 , Christopher A Scannell  3   4 , Ichiro Kawachi  5 , Yusuke Tsugawa  4   6
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Association Between State-Level Income Inequality and COVID-19 Cases and Mortality in the USA

Carlos Irwin A Oronce et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2020 Sep.
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The unadjusted correlation between the state-level Gini index and the number of COVID-19 cases (a) and deaths (b).
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