Closing the health inequity gap during the pandemic: COVID-19 mortality among racial and ethnic groups in Connecticut, March 2020 to December 2021

COVID-19 has disproportionally burdened racial and ethnic minority groups within the USA.1–5 However, prior studies relied predominately on aggregated data from populations residing in congregate and non-congregate settings.1–5 This approach may underestimate outcome disparities in the community, especially in states that experienced a large COVID-19 burden in nursing homes.5 Herein, we identified COVID-19-related deaths among Connecticut residents of congregate and non-congregate settings and characterised the evolution of racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19-related mortality among residents of non-congregate settings.

We retrospectively identified COVID-19-related deaths reported between 1 March 2020 and 13 December 2021 from the Connecticut Electronic Disease Surveillance System and determined residential status according to recorded address ().5 Using Poisson regressions and 2019 census population estimates, we estimated age-adjusted mortality for composite race and ethnicity categories…

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