Poverty and Covid-19: Rates of Incidence and Deaths in the United States During the First 10 Weeks of the Pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic in the winter and spring of 2020 represents a major challenge to the world health care system that has not been seen perhaps since the influenza pandemic in 1918. The virus has spread across the world, claiming lives on all continents with the exception of Antarctica. Since its...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:5d1b5a493f634500851be44185e2d291 2023-05-15T13:41:13+02:00 Poverty and Covid-19: Rates of Incidence and Deaths in the United States During the First 10 Weeks of the Pandemic W. Holmes Finch Maria E. Hernández Finch 2020-06-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2020.00047 https://doaj.org/article/5d1b5a493f634500851be44185e2d291 EN eng Frontiers Media S.A. https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fsoc.2020.00047/full https://doaj.org/toc/2297-7775 2297-7775 doi:10.3389/fsoc.2020.00047 https://doaj.org/article/5d1b5a493f634500851be44185e2d291 Frontiers in Sociology, Vol 5 (2020) COVID-19 poverty inequality testing coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Sociology (General) HM401-1281 article 2020 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2020.00047 2022-12-31T03:34:12Z The Covid-19 pandemic in the winter and spring of 2020 represents a major challenge to the world health care system that has not been seen perhaps since the influenza pandemic in 1918. The virus has spread across the world, claiming lives on all continents with the exception of Antarctica. Since its arrival in the United States, attention has been paid to how Covid-19 cases and deaths have been distributed across varying socioeconomic and ethnic groups. The goal of this study was to examine this issue during the early weeks of the pandemic, with the hope of shedding some light on how the number of cases and the number of deaths were, or were not related to poverty. Results of this study revealed that during the early weeks of the pandemic more disadvantaged counties in the United States had a larger number of confirmed Covid-19 cases, but that over time this trend changed so that by the beginning of April, 2020 more affluent counties had more confirmed cases of the virus. The number of deaths due to Covid-19 were associated with poorer and more urban counties. Discussion of these results focuses on the possibility that testing for the virus was less available in more disadvantaged counties later in the pandemic than was the case earlier, as the result of an overall lack of adequate testing resources across the nation. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctica Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Frontiers in Sociology 5 |
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The Covid-19 pandemic in the winter and spring of 2020 represents a major challenge to the world health care system that has not been seen perhaps since the influenza pandemic in 1918. The virus has spread across the world, claiming lives on all continents with the exception of Antarctica. Since its arrival in the United States, attention has been paid to how Covid-19 cases and deaths have been distributed across varying socioeconomic and ethnic groups. The goal of this study was to examine this issue during the early weeks of the pandemic, with the hope of shedding some light on how the number of cases and the number of deaths were, or were not related to poverty. Results of this study revealed that during the early weeks of the pandemic more disadvantaged counties in the United States had a larger number of confirmed Covid-19 cases, but that over time this trend changed so that by the beginning of April, 2020 more affluent counties had more confirmed cases of the virus. The number of deaths due to Covid-19 were associated with poorer and more urban counties. Discussion of these results focuses on the possibility that testing for the virus was less available in more disadvantaged counties later in the pandemic than was the case earlier, as the result of an overall lack of adequate testing resources across the nation. |
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