Variation in COVID-19 Hospitalizations and Deaths Across New York City Boroughs

JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 323, Issue 21, 2020, Pages 2192-2195

  Wadhera, Rishi K ^a   Wadhera, Priya ^b   Gaba, Prakriti ^c   Figueroa, Jose F ^d   Joynt Maddox, Karen E ^e   Yeh, Robert W ^a   Shen, Changyu ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; BRONX; BROOKLYN; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; DEATH; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANHATTAN; NEW YORK; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUEENS; RISK FACTOR; STATEN ISLAND; AGED; BETACORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PANDEMIC; SOCIOECONOMICS; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

ADULT; AGED; BETACORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK CITY; PANDEMICS; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; POPULATION DENSITY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 85084141481     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2020.7197     Document Type: Letter

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