Excess Mortality due to natural causes among whites and blacks during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil.
Renato Teixeira AzeredoAna Maria Nogales VasconcelosAna TorensElizabeth Barboza FrançaLenice Harumi IshitaniAna Luiza de Souza BierrenbachDaisy Maria Xavier de AbreuMaria de Fatima Marinho de SouzaPublished in: Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (2022)
The present study showed racial disparities in excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil. The higher excess found for the black suggests an intrinsic relationship with the socioeconomic situation, further exposing the Brazilian reality, in which social and structural inequality is evident.