Ethnic inequalities in COVID-19 infection, hospitalisation, intensive care admission, and death: a global systematic review and meta-analysis of over 200 million study …

P Irizar, D Pan, D Kapadia, L Bécares, S Sze… - …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background COVID-19 has exacerbated existing ethnic inequalities in health. Little is known
about whether inequalities in severe disease and deaths, observed globally among …

Risk factors for SARS-CoV-2 infection during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic literature review

M Harris, J Hart, O Bhattacharya… - Frontiers in Public …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Identifying SARS-CoV-2 infection risk factors allows targeted public health and
social measures (PHSM). As new, more transmissible variants of concern (VoC) emerge …

Rates and factors associated with documentation of diagnostic codes for long COVID in the National Veterans Affairs Health Care System

GN Ioannou, A Baraff, A Fox, T Shahoumian… - JAMA network …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Some persons infected with SARS-CoV-2 experience symptoms or impairments
many months after acute infection. Objectives To determine the rates, clinical setting, and …

Variation in clinical treatment and outcomes by race among US veterans hospitalized with COVID-19

AD Castro, FB Mayr, VB Talisa, OS Shaikh… - JAMA Network …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Patients from racially and ethnically minoritized populations, such as Black and
Hispanic patients, may be less likely to receive evidence-based COVID-19 treatments than …

Excess mortality among patients in the veterans Affairs health system compared with the overall US population during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic

DM Weinberger, L Rose, C Rentsch, SM Asch… - JAMA Network …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a substantial increase
in the rate of death in the United States. It is unclear whether those who had access to …

Design and analysis of outcomes following SARS-CoV-2 infection in veterans

VA Smith, TSZ Berkowitz, P Hebert, ES Wong… - BMC medical research …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Background Understanding how SARS-CoV-2 infection impacts long-term patient
outcomes requires identification of comparable persons with and without infection. We report …

Association of obesity and diabetes with SARS-CoV-2 infection and symptoms in the COVID-19 community research partnership

M Mongraw-Chaffin, AH Tjaden… - The Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Context Obesity and diabetes are established risk factors for severe SARS-CoV-2 outcomes,
but less is known about their impact on susceptibility to COVID-19 infection and general …

SARS-CoV-2 seroepidemiology in Mongolia, 2020–2021: a longitudinal national study

B Chimeddorj, CR Bailie, U Mandakh… - The Lancet Regional …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has global impacts but is relatively understudied in
developing countries. Mongolia, a lower-middle-income country, instituted strict control …

[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2 vaccination coverage and key public health indicators may explain disparities in COVID-19 country-specific case fatality rate within European …

VP Papadopoulos, A Emmanouilidou, M Yerou… - Cureus, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Aim To investigate the reasons for disparity regarding the country-specific COVID-19-related
case fatality rate (CFR) within the 30 countries of the European Economic Area (EEA) …

[HTML][HTML] Disaggregating disparities: a case study of heterogenous COVID-19 disparities across waves, geographies, social vulnerability, and political lean in Louisiana

A Schnake-Mahl, U Bilal - Preventive medicine reports, 2022 - Elsevier
While the first wave of COVID-19 primarily impacted urban areas, subsequent waves were
more widespread. Most analysis of Covid-19 rates examine state or metropolitan areas …