5 DSJ Investigation: Health Inequities during COVID-19

DSJ INVESTIGATION: Health Inequities during COVID-19
MATH SKILL FOCUS: Exponential Equation Models

The link below will launch an overview of the assignment in YouTube:

• DSJ Health Inequities Assignment (Getting Started) (18 minutes 38 seconds)
• This link goes over problems #1-3 related to median income by gender below.  You can use this as a model for your work on the tables broken out by ethnicity.

Data Tables Represent Weekly Deaths from COVID per 100,000 Population in the US

• Data from CDC’s COVID Data Tracker Summary Pages

1. Write exponential functions describing increase of COVID-19 deaths from June 2020 to January 2021.
   Let n = # of months (since June 2020) and P = weekly deaths per 100,000
   1. Male:
   2. Female:
2. Write exponential function describing increase of COVID-19 deaths from January 2021 to July 2021.
   Let n = # of months (since January 2021) and P = weekly deaths per 100,000
   1. Male:
   2. Female:
3. What do you notice about the rates?  What event(s) may have influenced the dramatic change in rates between these two dates?

1. Write an exponential function describing increase of COVID-19 deaths from June 2020 to January 2021.
   Let n = # of months (since June 2020) and P = weekly deaths per 100,000
   1. American Indian/Alaska Native:
   2. Asian:
   3. Black:
   4. Hispanic:
   5. White:
2. What do you notice about the rates?
3. Write an exponential function describing increase of COVID-19 deaths from January 2021 to July 2021.
   Let n = # of months (since January 2021) and P = weekly deaths per 100,000
   1. American Indian/Alaska Native:
   2. Asian:
   3. Black:
   4. Hispanic:
   5. White:
4. What do you notice about the rates?
5. What reasons might there be for such a discrepancy between races/ethnicities?