University of Michigan: CDC Blurs Geography in Reporting COVID-19 Deaths, Researchers Say
March 17, 2021
March 17, 2021
ANN ARBOR, Michigan, March 17 (TNSJou) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release:
When researcher Lauren Zalla was digging into the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's reports about the racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19 deaths, she found something startling.
She discovered that the CDC was using a statistical method that controls for geography when reporting deaths from COVID-19 by race and ethnicity. This distorts the rates o . . .
When researcher Lauren Zalla was digging into the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's reports about the racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19 deaths, she found something startling.
She discovered that the CDC was using a statistical method that controls for geography when reporting deaths from COVID-19 by race and ethnicity. This distorts the rates o . . .