Social Vulnerability, COVID-19, Racial Violence, and Depressive Symptoms: a Cross-sectional Study in the Southern United States.
Savannah L JohnsonKaitlin N QuickAmber D RiederJustin D RasmussenAmeya SanyalEric P GreenEmmy DuerrGabriela A NagyEve S PufferPublished in: Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities (2023)
People in the South report being negatively impacted by the confluence of the COVID-19 pandemic and the emergence of racial violence/protests in 2020, though patterns differ by racial group. These events, on top of pre-existing social vulnerabilities, help explain depressive symptoms in the South during 2020.