Aggressive measures, rising inequalities, and mass formation during the COVID-19 crisis: An overview and proposed way forward

MC Schippers, JPA Ioannidis, AR Joffe - Frontiers in public health, 2022 - frontiersin.org
A series of aggressive restrictive measures were adopted around the world in 2020–2022 to
attempt to prevent SARS-CoV-2 from spreading. However, it has become increasingly clear …

Significant impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on race/ethnic differences in US mortality

JM Aburto, AM Tilstra, G Floridi… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic triggered global declines in life expectancy.
The United States was hit particularly hard among high-income countries. Early data from …

Racial and ethnic differentials in COVID-19-related job exposures by occupational standing in the US

N Goldman, AR Pebley, K Lee, T Andrasfay, B Pratt - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Researchers and journalists have argued that work-related factors may be partly
responsible for disproportionate COVID-19 infection and death rates among vulnerable …

[HTML][HTML] The unequal burden of the Covid-19 pandemic: Capturing racial/ethnic disparities in US cause-specific mortality

AN Luck, SH Preston, IT Elo, AC Stokes - SSM-Population Health, 2022 - Elsevier
Despite a growing body of literature focused on racial/ethnic disparities in Covid-19
mortality, few previous studies have examined the pandemic's impact on 2020 cause …

Do social determinants of health explain racial/ethnic disparities in COVID-19 infection?

H Lee, T Andrasfay, A Riley, Q Wu… - Social Science & Medicine, 2022 - Elsevier
Racial/ethnic minorities have experienced higher COVID-19 infection rates than whites, but
it is unclear how individual-level housing, occupational, behavioral, and socioeconomic …

[HTML][HTML] Life expectancy loss among Native Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic

N Goldman, T Andrasfay - Demographic research, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
BACKGROUND There has been little systematic research on the mortality impact of COVID-
19 in the Native American population. OBJECTIVE We provide estimates of loss of life …

The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on life expectancy in 27 countries

G Huang, F Guo, KF Zimmermann, L Liu, L Taksa… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
The expected year-on-year intrinsic mortality variations/changes are largely overlooked in
the existing research when estimating the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality …

Reductions in US life expectancy during the COVID-19 pandemic by race and ethnicity: Is 2021 a repetition of 2020?

T Andrasfay, N Goldman - PLoS One, 2022 - journals.plos.org
COVID-19 had a huge mortality impact in the US in 2020 and accounted for most of the
overall reduction in 2020 life expectancy at birth. There were also extensive racial/ethnic …

[HTML][HTML] Excess mortality associated with elevated body weight in the USA by state and demographic subgroup: a modelling study

ZJ Ward, WC Willett, FB Hu, LS Pacheco… - …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background The obesity epidemic in the USA continues to grow nationwide. Although
excess weight-related mortality has been studied in general, less is known about how it …

The 90 plus: longevity and COVID-19 survival

M Zatz, MVR Silva, MV de Castro, MS Naslavsky - Molecular Psychiatry, 2022 - nature.com
The world population is getting older and studies aiming to enhance our comprehension of
the underlying mechanisms responsible for health span are of utmost interest for longevity …