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Racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19 deaths are even more extreme in rural areas, according to a new study conducted by Oregon State University, Texas State University and the University of North Texas.
Along with the results showing racial and ethnic minorities in rural area are at a higher risk for COVID-19 deaths, researchers put forth several steps they say health care providers need to follow to address the issues. The full study was published in the Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities and can be viewed at https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33638102/.
âTo address the disparities, researchers say the health care response to COVID-19, including the vaccine rollout, needs to allocate additional resources to rural areas that have been hardest hit, especially those where minority populations are concentrated,â according to a Thursday news release from OSU announcing the study results.
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