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Large variations in exposure at home, in the community and at work—rather than case-fatality rates—may explain the well-documented racial disparities in COVID-19 mortality during the first wave of the pandemic last spring, according to a new University of Michigan study.
Higher rates of infection and mortality among Black and Hispanic Americans are explained by exposure on the job and at home, experts said.
Belinda Zuniga, who works with Michigan Public Health's Lynda Lisabeth on the Brain Attack Surveillance in Corpus Christi (BASIC) Project, helps further research about stroke in Mexican Americans.
Black patients are more likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19 than white patients with similar underlying health and socioeconomic conditions, according to a new University of Michigan School of Public Health study.
Excess body mass, smoking and manual labor explain a large proportion of disability disparities in the United States, according to a new University of Michigan study.
Epidemiologists and virologists around the world are scrambling to understand and prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus. There is another group of researchers who are concerned about a slightly different foe: the mental health pandemic.