![]() ![]() ![]() This disparity in mortality rates has an impact on life expectancy during the pandemic as well. 3įor white mortality to reach levels that Black Americans experience outside of the pandemic, excess mortality in 2020 for white Americans would need to increase by 5.7 times the level of cumulative COVID-19 mortality reached in July 2020 (when the research findings were published), Wrigley-Field reports.įinal analysis of 2020 is likely to reveal “a deadly pandemic causing a spike in mortality for whites that nevertheless remains lower than the mortality Blacks experience routinely, outside of any pandemic,” she suggests. In particular, Black Americans are overrepresented in service jobs with high public contact and are particularly overrepresented among low-paid workers who may lack the power to demand adequate protection. Social factors rather than innate vulnerabilities drive these mortality differences: Mounting research suggests these stark disparities are driven by differences in exposure to the coronavirus. Using demographic models, Wrigley-Field estimates how many deaths of white Americans would be needed to raise the white age-adjusted mortality rate to the best-ever (lowest) Black age-adjusted rate.Īt least 400,000 excess deaths of white Americans-deaths above and beyond the number expected in a non-pandemic year-would be needed to reach the best mortality rate ever recorded for Black Americans, which occurred in 2014, she finds.īlack Americans’ age-adjusted, confirmed COVID-19 deaths are more than 2.5 times higher than that of white Americans, she reports. 1 Her analysis focuses on death rates and compares the scale of this pandemic to racial inequality, which she calls “another U.S. Extreme Racial Inequality in COVID-19 Deaths Layers on Top of Existing Stark Disparitiesīlack Americans experience a higher mortality rate every year than white Americans are experiencing during the coronavirus pandemic, finds Elizabeth Wrigley-Field of the University of Minnesota. These impacts are among the findings of new research supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) that aims to put the pandemic’s magnitude in context and inform responses. Each coronavirus-related death will likely impact about nine close family members. lifespan-temporarily-its effects will be felt most heavily by Black Americans, whose mortality rate in ordinary years is higher than the rate for white Americans during the pandemic. While the pandemic is shortening the average U.S. Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and InclusionĬoronavirus Pandemic Temporarily Shortens Average U.S.Policy and Advocacy Communications Training.Management of Complex Technical Programs.Distilling Research for Non-Technical Audiences.Adaptive Learning and Knowledge Management.Family Planning, Maternal and Reproductive Health. ![]()
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