Alsan, Marcella; Chandra, Amitabh; Simon, Kosali Ilayperuma - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We measure inequities from the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality and hospitalizations in the United States during the … early months of the outbreak. We discuss challenges in measuring health outcomes and health inequality, some of which are … specific to COVID-19 and others that complicate attribution during most large health shocks. As in past epidemics, pre …