Updated results for a pre-print research note, "Deaths among COVID Cases in the United States: Racial and Ethnic Disparities Persist"

Madeleine Short Fabic, Yoonjoung Choi, David Bishai

(Updated: 2021-05-09 16:08:33 EDT)

The pre-print was published on November 17, 2020, and is available here: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/202011.15.20232066v2.
Data source is: CDC's COVID-19 Case Surveillance Public Use Data.
The data are updated monthly. Pre-print used the November 3 release version, and this update is based on the version released on April 30, 2021, which includes cases reported to CDC between 2020-01-01 - 2021-04-15.

Figure 1. Trends of monthly case fatality rates among COVID-19 cases by race/ethnicity: crude and age-adjusted

NH: Non-Hispanic. Results for four largest single race/ethnicity groups are presented. Monthly case fatality rates refer to percent of cases reported in each month that have resulted in death either during the month or later.

yearmonth	Hispanic_cfr_observed	Hispanic_cfr_std	NHAsian_cfr_observed	NHAsian_cfr_std	NHBlack_cfr_observed	NHBlack_cfr_std	NHWhite_cfr_observed	NHWhite_cfr_std
2020/03	8.3	7.4	12.3	8.1	13.0	8.1	10.5	5.2
2020/04	5.8	5.8	12.3	6.9	11.5	6.7	18.6	6.1
2020/05	2.1	3.4	5.5	4.2	4.6	3.6	9.4	3.7
2020/06	1.6	3.0	3.2	3.6	2.6	2.9	3.2	2.2
2020/07	1.8	3.2	3.4	3.6	2.8	3.1	3.4	2.4
2020/08	1.5	2.6	2.8	3.0	2.7	2.9	3.1	2.3
2020/09	1.1	2.0	1.9	2.5	2.1	2.3	2.1	1.7
2020/10	0.9	1.7	1.5	2.1	1.9	2.2	2.2	1.7
2020/11	1.2	2.3	2.0	2.7	2.1	2.6	2.4	1.8
2020/12	1.5	2.6	3.0	3.2	2.4	2.6	2.7	1.9
2021/01	1.3	2.2	2.3	2.5	2.0	2.3	2.3	1.7
2021/02	1.0	1.6	1.5	1.9	1.6	1.9	1.5	1.3

Figure 2. Monthly age-specific case fatality rates across race/ethnicity groups

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