The Social Epidemiology of the Covid-19 Pandemic - Paperbackby Dustin T. Duncan (Editor), Ichiro Kawachi (Editor), Stephen S. Morse (Editor) The COVID 19 pandemic has worsened health disparities worldwide. Across all nations, the burden of COVID 19 has fallen most heavily on the socially disadvantaged. In the United States, the COVID 19 mortality rate for Black Americans is over twice that of their White American counterparts, and people in prisons have more than double the COVID 19 mortality rate of the