Developing innovative ways to quantify COVID-19's total mortality burden and assessing the uneven socioeconomic and racial/ethnic impacts

Health Disparities. The purpose of this project is to measure the mortality impact of COVID-19, particularly the impact on socioeconomic, racial, and ethnic differences in mortality and life expectancy. The project will develop methods to quantify the total mortality burden of COVID-19 and its uneven impact, using demographic and statistical modeling methods. The grantees will develop ways to adjust for the misclassification of deaths as well as for deaths that are indirectly attributable to the pandemic. Deliverables will include articles in the peer-reviewed literature as well as on a website with interactive data visualizations and other information. The researchers are a team of demographers from Boston University and the University of Pennsylvania.