Why Racial Disparities Data Matters for COVID-19

Pittwire Health spoke with CP3 affiliated faculty member Dr. Utibe Essien about why having data on racial disparities and COVID-19 matters. Essien is an author on an upcoming paper on racial disparities and deaths involving COVID-19. "We...found that, adjusting for age, Black Americans were dying at three and a half times the rate as White Americans from COVID-19. Latinx Americans were dying at about two times the rate of White groups,” he said.