African-American COVID-19 Mortality: A Sentinel Event

J Am Coll Cardiol. 2020 Jun 2;75(21):2746-2748. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2020.04.040. Epub 2020 Apr 21.

Authors

Keith C Ferdinand¹, Samar A Nasser²

Affiliations

¹ Gerald S. Berenson Endowed Chair in Preventive Cardiology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana. Electronic address: kferdina@tulane.edu.
² Clinical Health Sciences, Department of Clinical Research & Leadership, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, DC.

No abstract available

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus
Black or African American* / statistics & numerical data
COVID-19
Cardiovascular Diseases / epidemiology*
Cardiovascular Diseases / ethnology*
Comorbidity
Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology
Coronavirus Infections / ethnology*
Coronavirus Infections / mortality*
Cost of Illness
Healthcare Disparities* / statistics & numerical data
Humans
Life Expectancy
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology
Pneumonia, Viral / ethnology*
Pneumonia, Viral / mortality*
SARS-CoV-2
Sentinel Surveillance
Socioeconomic Factors
United States / epidemiology