Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Infection and Hospitalization in the Active Component US Military.

John M Young, Shauna L Stahlman, Shawn S Clausen, Mark L Bova, James D Mancuso

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Article in American journal of public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

Disparities in COVID-19 Testing and Infection Among Beneficiaries in the Military Health System During the First Year of the Pandemic.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026
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Use of Long COVID Clinics in the Veterans Health Administration: Implications for the path forward.Health affairs scholar · 2025
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Use of Different Inclusion Criteria to Compare COVID-19 Hospital Admission Rates by Race and Ethnicity: A Cohort Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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Ethnic inequalities in COVID-19 infection, hospitalisation, intensive care admission, and death: a global systematic review and meta-analysis of over 200 million study participants.EClinicalMedicine · 2023
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COVID-19 test positivity by occupation using the Delphi US COVID-19 trends and impact survey, September-November 2020.American journal of industrial medicine · 2022
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4 · The record

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Access and Analytics: What the Military Can Teach Us About Health Equity.2021

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

John M YoungJohn M. Young and James D. Mancuso are with the Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD. Shauna L. Stahlman, Shawn S. Clausen, and Mark L. Bova are with the Epidemiology and Analysis Section of the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Division at the Defense Health Agency, Silver Spring, MD. Note. The opinions and assertions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Department of Defense or the US government.

Shauna L StahlmanJohn M. Young and James D. Mancuso are with the Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD. Shauna L. Stahlman, Shawn S. Clausen, and Mark L. Bova are with the Epidemiology and Analysis Section of the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Division at the Defense Health Agency, Silver Spring, MD. Note. The opinions and assertions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Department of Defense or the US government.

Shawn S ClausenJohn M. Young and James D. Mancuso are with the Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD. Shauna L. Stahlman, Shawn S. Clausen, and Mark L. Bova are with the Epidemiology and Analysis Section of the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Division at the Defense Health Agency, Silver Spring, MD. Note. The opinions and assertions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Department of Defense or the US government.

Mark L BovaJohn M. Young and James D. Mancuso are with the Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD. Shauna L. Stahlman, Shawn S. Clausen, and Mark L. Bova are with the Epidemiology and Analysis Section of the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Division at the Defense Health Agency, Silver Spring, MD. Note. The opinions and assertions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Department of Defense or the US government.

James D MancusoJohn M. Young and James D. Mancuso are with the Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD. Shauna L. Stahlman, Shawn S. Clausen, and Mark L. Bova are with the Epidemiology and Analysis Section of the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Division at the Defense Health Agency, Silver Spring, MD. Note. The opinions and assertions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Department of Defense or the US government.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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AdultCOVID-19COVID-19 TestingFemaleHealth Status DisparitiesHospitalizationHumansMaleMiddle AgedMilitary PersonnelRetrospective StudiesSARS-CoV-2Sociodemographic FactorsUnited StatesYoung Adult

Identifiers

PMID34878873

DOI10.2105/AJPH.2021.306527

PMCPMC8667833

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