Temporal trends in the association of social vulnerability and race/ethnicity with county-level COVID-19 incidence and outcomes in the USA: an ecological analysis.

Shabatun J IslamAditi NayakYingtian HuAnurag MehtaKatherine DieppaZakaria AlmuwaqqatYi-An KoShivani A PatelAbhinav GoyalSamaah SullivanTené T LewisViola VaccarinoAlanna A MorrisArshed A Quyyumi

Published in: BMJ open (2021)

Except for the winter 'third wave', when majority of the white communities had the highest incidence of cases, counties with greater social vulnerability and proportionately higher minority populations experienced worse COVID-19 outcomes.

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