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Researchers cite rates of incarceration, educational attainment as strong factors<\/p>\n

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Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the world has been inundated by numbers, from case counts to deaths, layoffs to business closures. A trio of Clark faculty — biology<\/a> professors Nathan Ahlgren<\/a> and Philip Bergmann<\/a> and sociology<\/a> professor Rosalie Torres Stone<\/a> — used the mountain of available data to collaborate on an interdisciplinary research project, exploring the progress of the pandemic over time and how it has affected different demographic groups.<\/p>\n

Their study, “Multiple measures of structural racism as predictors of U.S. county-level COVID-19 cases and deaths<\/a>,” was published last month in Ethnic and Racial Studies<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The professors shared their findings during a session of last spring’s Inauguration Symposium<\/a>, explaining that their research considered several predictors of COVID-19 in the U.S., including inequalities in housing, education, employment and earnings, health care access, and incarceration rates. The study, which showed clear racial disparities in how COVID-19 affected different groups, stressed the critical need to address health disparities by confronting structural racism on multiple fronts.<\/p>\n

Among a range of factors, the study found that inequities in educational attainment and rate of incarceration were the strongest predictors of COVID-19 cases, with results varying in the four major regions of the U.S.<\/p>\n

Last summer, Bergmann, Ahlgren, and Torres Stone — who became known to their students as the “COVID Posse” — were featured in a Worcester Magazine article<\/a> about their ongoing research.<\/p>\n

When the article was published, Ahlgren shared more about the work on Twitter<\/a>.<\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"