Violations of independence: ethnicity and COVID-19 in Brazil
Autor
Oreskovic, Tin
Institución
Resumen
Pedro Baqui and colleagues (August
2020)
1
did a cross-sectional observ
-
ational study of hospital mortality
from COVID-19 in Brazil to assess
variations in mortality according
to ethnicity and region, adjusting
for many clinical features. The
study revealed the presence of
societal inequities in the effects of
COVID-19: mortality was significantly
higher in Pardo (mixed ethnicity)
and Black Brazilians than in White
Brazilians (hazard ratio [HR] 1·45,
95% CI 1·33–1·58 for Pardo Brazilians;
1·32, 1·15–1·52 for Black Brazilians).