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Racial Disparities in COVID-19 and Excess Mortality in Minnesota

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  • Wrigley-Field, Elizabeth
  • Garcia, Sarah
  • Leider, Jonathon P.
  • Robertson, Christopher
  • Wurtz, Rebecca

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The COVID-19 pandemic has produced vastly disproportionate deaths for communities of color in the United States. Minnesota seemingly stands out as an exception to this national pattern, with white Minnesotans accounting for 80% of the population and 82% of COVID-19 deaths. We examine confirmed COVID mortality alongside deaths indirectly attributable to the pandemic -- ‘excess mortality’ -- in Minnesota. This analysis reveals profound racial disparities: age-adjusted excess mortality rates for whites are exceeded by a factor of 2.8-5.3 for all other racial groups, with the highest rates among Black, Latino, and Native Minnesotans. The seemingly small disparities in COVID deaths in Minnesota reflect the interaction of three factors: the natural history of the disease whose early toll was heavily concentrated in nursing homes; an exceptionally divergent age distribution in the state; and a greatly different proportion of excess mortality captured in confirmed-COVID rates for white Minnesotans compared with most other groups.

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  • Wrigley-Field, Elizabeth & Garcia, Sarah & Leider, Jonathon P. & Robertson, Christopher & Wurtz, Rebecca, 2020. "Racial Disparities in COVID-19 and Excess Mortality in Minnesota," SocArXiv rs4ph, Center for Open Science.
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    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/rs4ph
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    1. Kimberly M. Horner & Elizabeth Wrigley-Field & Jonathon P. Leider, 2022. "A First Look: Disparities in COVID-19 Mortality Among US-Born and Foreign-Born Minnesota Residents," Population Research and Policy Review, Springer;Southern Demographic Association (SDA), vol. 41(2), pages 465-478, April.

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