
Rachel M. Werner (PARC Research Associate ) and co-author David Asch wrote an Op-ed published in The Washington Post. Their research in JAMA Network Open entitled,"Patient and Hospital Factors Associated With Differences in Mortality Rates Among Black and White US Medicare Beneficiaries Hospitalized With COVID-19 Infection," shows that the mortality rate among Black patients hospitalized with COVID-19 would be 10% lower if they were cared for in the same hospitals where White patients were admitted.