4-1-24 Dr. Elizabeth Wrigley Field Associate Professor at the University of Minnesita talks about undercounting death with covid-19 with Freddie Bell on the KMOJ Morning Show

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Elizabeth Wrigley Field is an Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota in the Department of Sociology in the Minnesota population Center. A socialogist and a demographer, she studies racial inequality in mortality, in the historical contemporary United States, and specializes in finding comparisons and metrics that illuminate the human meaning of mortality disparities. She has extensively research to COVID-19 pandemic in Minnesota. Where she also cofounded an award-winning community vaccination organization. She is also a demographic methodologist, developing models designed to clarify relationships between micro and macro perspectives on population processes. Inaccuracies in counting deaths for covid may have been worse than we were led to believe especially in community of color.