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Asian American data more likely to be missing or misclassified
In April 2020, Islam and her community health worker team conducted a COVID-19 needs assessment of New York City’s South Asian communities. Of the 200 people they reached and surveyed, she said, close to 40% knew a close friend or family member who had died from the virus.
Stella Yi, an assistant professor at NYU’s Grossman School of Medicine, said New York City’s Health Department released race-specific data on April 8, 2020. But it just wasn’t adding up with the community-level reports from throughout the city, she said.
Stella S. Yi is a professor at NYU’s School of Medicine in the Department of Population Health. (Courtesy of Stella Yi)