Medicare Data Reveal Wide Variety Across Regions Of COVID-19 Fatality Risk

  • Nancy E. Morden ,
  • Jonathan Skinner ,
  • Bill Weeks ,
  • Stephanie Tomlin ,

Health Affairs |

Early evidence makes clear that some Americans are at much greater risk than others of severe COVID-19 symptoms, hospitalization, and death; less is known about which regions are especially vulnerable. In this post, we describe a collaboration between Microsoft Healthcare NeXT and Dartmouth Atlas Project researchers aimed at measuring the risk of severe COVID-19 across regions of the U.S.