Research Needed: Better Quantitative Studies to Identify Causes of COVID-19 Nursing Home Disparities

The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has brought to light numerous societal inequities, revealing the impacts of multiple layers of disadvantage born most often by racial and ethnic minorities. The examination by The New York Times of COVID-19 data alerted us to inequities at play in nursing homes (NHs), where COVID-19 cases were more likely to be present in NHs serving higher proportions of residents who are African American (AA)/Black or Latinx.1 This disparity was neither explained by facility size nor location.