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Health Equity and Access to COVID-19 Treatments Available through Emergency Use Authorizations

Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, ISSN: 2196-8837
2024
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Recent Findings from Food and Drug Administration Provides New Insights into COVID-19 (Health Equity and Access To Covid-19 Treatments Available Through Emergency Use Authorizations)

2024 AUG 15 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at NewsRx COVID-19 Daily -- New research on Coronavirus - COVID-19 is the subject

Article Description

Understanding and evaluating equity in access to care is a critical component to ensuring health equity for all individuals. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration made unprecedented use of its regulatory authority by authorizing the use of unapproved products through Emergency Use Authorizations (EUAs). We use data from the U.S. National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) to understand how access to therapeutic products authorized under EUAs has varied across COVID-19 patients and over time. We find that Black patients were more likely to receive early EUA drugs while White patients were more likely to receive monoclonal antibodies. Male patients were more likely to receive any EUA drug than Female patients. Patients in Metropolitan areas were more likely to receive EUA drugs than patients in other regions. Additionally, differences in the rates of exposure to EUA drugs by gender, rural-urban classification, and length of stay decreased over time while differences by race and ethnicity have generally persisted. Our project identifies inequities in the rate of access to EUA drugs across patient groups that can inform policy makers in future planning and decision making.

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