Updated results and annex for a pre-print manuscript, "Trends in age distribution of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths by race in the United States"

Madeleine Short Fabic and Yoonjoung Choi

(Updated: 2021-05-07 18:15:49 EDT)

  • The pre-print was published on August 12, 2020, and is available here: 10.31235/osf.io/7edgu
  • Data source: CDC's COVID-19 Case Surveillance Public Use Data
  • The data are updated monthly. Pre-print used the July 31 release version, and this update is based on the version released on April 30, 2021. Latest report date is April 15, 2021, in this version.

Figure 1. Racial and ethnic distribution of weekly COVID-19 cases in the United States

Note: only weeks with 20 or more cases are presented.NH: Non-Hispanic, AIAN:American Indian/Alaskan Native, NHPI: Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander.

Figure 2. Age-distribution of weekly COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths by race/ethnicity: Hispanic, non-Hispanic Black, and non-Hispanic white

Legend for age groups

Note: only weeks with 20 or more observations (cases, hospitalizations, and deaths, accordingly) are presented. Hospitalization and deaths by the week of case report, not necessarily actual week of hospitalization or death.

Annex 1. Trends of age distribution in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths: by race

Annex1.1. Trends of age distribution in weekly cases

(only weeks with more than 20 cases are presented)

Annex1.2. Trends of age distribution in weekly hospitalizations

(only weeks with more than 20 hospitalizations are presented)

Annex1.3. Trends of age distribution in weekly deaths

(only weeks with more than 20 deaths are presented)