Commentary: Race, COVID-19 and Nursing Homes

Affiliations

¹ Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
² Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
³ University of Cincinnati Children's Hospital (Emeritus), Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

Editorial

Mack Roach et al. J Infect Dis. 2022.

. 2022 Feb 15;225(4):555-556.

doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiab516.

¹ Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
² Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
³ University of Cincinnati Children's Hospital (Emeritus), Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

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Comment on

Risk Factors for COVID-19 Deaths Among Elderly Nursing Home Medicare Beneficiaries in the Prevaccine Period.
Lu Y, Jiao Y, Graham DJ, Wu Y, Wang J, Menis M, Chillarige Y, Wernecke M, Kelman J, Forshee RA, Izurieta HS. Lu Y, et al. J Infect Dis. 2022 Feb 15;225(4):567-577. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiab515. J Infect Dis. 2022. PMID: 34618896

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