COVID-19 and African Americans

JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 323, Issue 19, 2020, Pages 1891-1892

  Yancy, Clyde W ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; BLACK PERSON; COMORBIDITY; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RATE; MORTALITY RATE; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK FACTOR; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS 2; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL STATUS; UNITED STATES; BETACORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; PANDEMIC; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; BETACORONAVIRUS; COMORBIDITY; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; PANDEMICS; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85083742380     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2020.6548     Document Type: Note

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