Part 1: Data, Race, and COVID-19
This three-part series will examine the racial disparities in health brought vividly to public attention during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first panel in our series will explore the importance of collecting and utilizing data on race to better understand the impact of the pandemic.
At the end of the recording, participants will be able to:
– Describe economic effects of COVID on households included in the Children’s HealthWatch survey.
– Describe evidence for the association of structural racism and telehealth inequities among Black and Latinx communities, and the implications of those inequities
– List 2 factors experienced by Black and Latinx students that negatively influence their academic success and provide a possible intervention to address them
– Describe data limitations that impede comparing COVID case and death rates across States, as identified by the COVID Racial Data Tracker