Introduction Starting in late April, as the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the United States, several news stories and articles were published highlighting a racial bias in COVID-19 infections and deaths. These articles were followed by counterpoints suggesting that the racial discrepancy in COVID-19 infections was not surprising and could be explained by differences in socio-economic status and access to health care, which are divided along racial lines. Curious to see what the consensus was regarding the underlying cause of the discrepancy was, I looked for more resources. I struggled to find a paper or other analysis that considered a variety of demographic and socio-economic covariates when assessing the importance of race on COVID-19 infections.