Filtered by: Demographic and Geographic Variation in COVID-19 Impacts
COVID Mortality Rates were Higher in States that Limited Enacting Public Health Emergency Orders
Xue Zhang, Mildred E. Warner, and Gen Meredith
This brief summarizes the results of a study that used data from the Center for Public Health Law Research and Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker to explore which states passed laws that limited emergency public health authority during the COVID-19 pandemic and the effects of those limits on COVID-19 death rates.
August 30, 2023
State COVID-19 Policies that Restricted In-Person Interaction and Economic Support Saved Lives
Yue Sun and Erin M. Bisesti
This brief summarizes the results of a recent study examining how U.S. states’ COVID-19 policies were related to COVID-19 mortality rates from April to December 2020.
February 21, 2023
The Unequal Burden of Long COVID
Marc A. Garcia, Catherine García, and Erin Bisesti
This data slice summarizes data from the U.S. Census Household Pulse Survey and reports that although there are no significant racial/ethnic differences in overall activity limitations from long COVID, a higher percentage of Black and Hispanic/Latino adults report experiencing “significant” activity limitations compared to Whites.
November 16, 2022