Title
Who Bears the Burden? Racial Disparities in Confirmed Cases of COVID-19 in the Greater Boston Area
Presentation Type
Poster
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7275/12nv-wt76
Abstract
Documenting racial disparities in the spread of COVID-19 is crucial to bettering public health. In the Boston area, non-white and Black communities are significantly overrepresented in areas of high confirmed COVID-19 prevalence. Areas where high prevalence is clustered (“hot spots”) have disproportionate shares of non-white and Black residents, and the disparities are statistically significant. These results confirm marked COVID-19 racial disparities in Boston.
Keyword
COVID-19, racial disparities, public health, GIS, hot spot analysis, t-test, bivariate map, Boston, Massachusetts
Creative Commons License
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Recommended Citation
Helling, Leija. 2020. "Who Bears the Burden? Racial Disparities in Confirmed Cases of COVID-19 in the Greater Boston Area." Poster presented at Massachusetts GIS Day, November 18. https://doi.org/10.7275/12nv-wt76
Who Bears the Burden? Racial Disparities in Confirmed Cases of COVID-19 in the Greater Boston Area
Documenting racial disparities in the spread of COVID-19 is crucial to bettering public health. In the Boston area, non-white and Black communities are significantly overrepresented in areas of high confirmed COVID-19 prevalence. Areas where high prevalence is clustered (“hot spots”) have disproportionate shares of non-white and Black residents, and the disparities are statistically significant. These results confirm marked COVID-19 racial disparities in Boston.