Ethnic Differences in Coronavirus Disease 2019 Hospitalization and Hospital Outcomes in a Multiethnic Population in the Netherlands.
Didier CollardKarien StronksVanessa HarrisLiza CoyerKees BrinkmanMartijn BeudelNejma BokhizzouRenee A DoumaPaul ElbersHenrike GalenkampMarije Ten WoldeMaria PrinsBert-Jan H Van Den BornCharles AgyemangPublished in: Open forum infectious diseases (2022)
The risk of COVID-19 hospitalization was higher in all ethnic minority groups compared to the Dutch, but the risk of adverse outcomes after hospitalization was similar. Our results suggest that these inequalities may in part be attributable to comorbidities that can be prevented by targeted public health prevention measures. More work is needed to gain insight into the role of other potential factors such as social determinants of health, which might have contributed to the ethnic inequalities in COVID-19 hospitalization.