Americans' perceptions of health disparities over the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic: Results from three nationally-representative surveys

TL;DR: The public perception of COVID-19 disparities in the U.S. is highly polarized along partisan lines, with Democrats expressing greater concern and Republicans expressing less concern.

TL;DR: The authors found that on average, people perceived accurately that certain groups (e.g., Black Americans, older people) were more affected by the pandemic, but these group perceptions varied by demographic and political characteristics of respondents.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors report on a community-engaged formative evaluation to segment audiences and identify major themes to guide campaign message development for a transformative health communication campaign for chronic disease prevention.

TL;DR: Adding cancer screening prevalence comparisons did not shift screening intentions among Black Americans but changed their support for disparity-reducing policies, though the effects depended on the disease in question.

TL;DR: This paper conducted a national survey of beliefs about social and economic inequality in America and found that attitudes toward economic inequality and related policy are influenced by three major aspects of the current American social, economic, and political environment: a stable "dominant ideology" about economic inequality; individuals' social status; and specific beliefs and attitudes, often reflecting "social liberalism" shaped by recent political debates and events.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report that delays, denials and misinformation about COVID-19 have exacerbated its spread and slowed pandemic response, particularly in the U.S. (e.g., Abutaleb et al., 2020).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors performed full body autopsies on 26 patients that had died after SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 at the Charite University Hospital Berlin, Germany, or at associated teaching hospitals.

TL;DR: Findings show that there are important disparities in COVID-19-related knowledge, attitudes and behaviours according to people's health literacy and language that have the potential to undermine efforts to reduce viral transmission and may lead to social inequalities in health outcomes in Australia.