Racial Health Disparities and Covid-19 - Caution and Context

N Engl J Med. 2020 Jul 16;383(3):201-203. doi: 10.1056/NEJMp2012910. Epub 2020 May 6.

Authors

Merlin Chowkwanyun¹, Adolph L Reed Jr¹

Affiliation

¹ From the Department of Sociomedical Sciences and the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York (M.C.); and the Department of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (A.L.R.).

PMID: 32374952
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp2012910

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus
Continental Population Groups
Coronavirus Infections / ethnology*
Ethnic Groups
Health Status Disparities*
Humans
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral / ethnology*
Social Class
Social Stigma
United States / epidemiology

Supplementary concepts

COVID-19
severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2