Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities—Before and During the Pandemic

GAO September 28, 2021

News headlines during the pandemic have highlighted the disproportionate effect of COVID-19 across certain racial and ethnic groups in the United States. Available data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show disparities in everything from testing and vaccination rates to cases, hospitalizations, and deaths. For example, as of July, American Indian/Alaska Native people died from COVID-19 at a rate 2.8 times higher than White people, when taking age into account.

While the pandemic has drawn attention to health disparities among racial and ethnic groups, these disparities existed prior to the pandemic. Today’s WatchBlog post looks at our work on racial and ethnic health disparities, which we highlight in our latest Health Care Capsule—a short format report designed...

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