US Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Mortality

This dashboard displays the Standardized Mortality Ratio (SMR) of Black and Latinx Population to Covid-19 in comparison to White population for the states for which the data are available (+New York City).

Note that this visualization is based on publicly-available data. More information on the mortality standardization and derivation of upper and lower confidence bounds can be found in Gross et al.

Methods & Data Source:
Gross, C.P., Essien, U.R., Pasha, S. et al. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Population-Level Covid-19 Mortality. J GEN INTERN MED 35, 3097–3099 (2020).
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-020-06081-w

Created by:
Yale COVID-19 Data Mapping Team