Racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities of Covid-19 attacks rates in\n Suffolk County communities

2020/04/25 by Daniel Dobin, Dobin, Daniel, Alexander Dobin +1
Mathematics · Medicine · Psychology · #COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies #COVID-19 and Mental Health #COVID-19 epidemiological studies #FOS: Biological sciences #Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2004.12175

openalex publication_date 2020/04/25 · openalex created_date 2022/07/26 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We investigated the dependence of Covid-19 attack rates on demographic and\nsocioeconomic factors for the communities in Suffolk County (Long Island, New\nYork State), presently the 5th most-affected county in the United States.\nConfirming the previous observations that minorities are disproportionately\nimpacted by the Covid-19 disease, we found that the attack rate is strongly\ncorrelated with the minority population proportion, with an alarmingly high\n\∼4-fold attack rate increase for Black and Hispanic populations.\n

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