The US is undercounting COVID deaths, researchers say. Now they have a tool to figure out why.

SHLI's Executive Director featured in USA Today article discussing the outstanding inequities that continue to plague communities of color."In 2020, the death rate among white Americans was 14% higher than in 2019. For the first 10 months of 2021, it’s 9% lower than 2019, suggesting that deaths for the full year will be closer to pre-pandemic levels.

Daniel Dawes, executive director of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, said the 2021 figures for communities of color are “really troubling,” though the disparities are not surprising."

USA TODAY- Dillon Bergin, Betsy Ladyzhets, Mohar Chatterjee and Derek KravitzBrown Institute for Media Innovation and MuckRock’s Documenting COVID-19 project

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