Racial health disparities and Covid-19 — Caution and context

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 383, Issue 3, 2020, Pages 201-203

  Chowkwanyun, Merlin ^a   Reed, Adolph L ^b  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RACE; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; SOCIAL STATUS; STIGMA; VULNERABLE POPULATION; ANCESTRY GROUP; BETACORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; PANDEMIC; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL STIGMA; UNITED STATES; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

BETACORONAVIRUS; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; ETHNIC GROUPS; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; PANDEMICS; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL STIGMA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85086703716     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp2012910     Document Type: Review

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