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. 2020 Oct;35(10):3097-3099.
doi: 10.1007/s11606-020-06081-w. Epub 2020 Aug 4.

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Population-Level Covid-19 Mortality

Cary P Gross  1   2   3 , Utibe R Essien  4 , Saamir Pasha  5 , Jacob R Gross  6 , Shi-Yi Wang  5   7 , Marcella Nunez-Smith  8   5   9
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Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Population-Level Covid-19 Mortality

Cary P Gross et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2020 Oct.
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Conflict of interest statement

Dr. Gross reported receiving research grants from the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (funded by Pfizer and Astra-Zeneca), funding from Johnson & Johnson to assist with developing new approaches to sharing clinical trial data (through the Yale Open Data Access Project), and funding from Flatiron, Inc., for travel/speaking, outside the submitted work. No other disclosures were reported.

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Percent race/ethnicity information missing in Covid-19 death data by state, April 21, 2020.
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a Covid-19 mortality in Black vs White state populations. b Covid-19 mortality in Latinx vs White state populations. New York City is included as a separate region, as these data are reported distinctly from New York State data. SMR, standardized mortality ratio for Black or Latinx in comparison with White population.
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