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

Rishi K Wadhera; Priya Wadhera; Prakriti Gaba; Jose F Figueroa; Karen E Joynt Maddox; Robert W Yeh; Changyu Shen

doi:10.1001/jama.2020.7197

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

JAMA. 2020 Jun 2;323(21):2192-2195. doi: 10.1001/jama.2020.7197.

Authors

Rishi K Wadhera¹, Priya Wadhera², Prakriti Gaba³, Jose F Figueroa⁴, Karen E Joynt Maddox^{5

6}, Robert W Yeh¹, Changyu Shen¹

Affiliations

¹ Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes Research in Cardiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Department of Medicine, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, New York.
³ Department of Medicine, New York Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York.
⁴ Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁵ Cardiovascular Division, Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, St Louis, Missouri.
⁶ Associate Editor.

Abstract

This study describes demographic characteristics and hospital bed capacities of the 5 New York City boroughs, and evaluates whether differences in testing for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), hospitalizations, and deaths have emerged as a signal of racial, ethnic, and financial disparities.

MeSH terms

Adult
Aged
Betacoronavirus*
COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology*
Coronavirus Infections / mortality
Female
Hospital Bed Capacity / statistics & numerical data
Hospitalization / statistics & numerical data*
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
New York City / epidemiology
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology*
Pneumonia, Viral / mortality
Population Density
SARS-CoV-2
Socioeconomic Factors

Grants and funding

K23 HL148525/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States