Could Clinician Sensitivity to Cultural and Historical Considerations Help Reduce COVID-19 Deaths among Blacks?
- 1 September 2021
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Southern Medical Association in Southern Medical Journal
- Vol. 114 (9), 591-592
- https://doi.org/10.14423/smj.0000000000001288
Abstract
During the course of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, many magazines and newspapers have published articles reflecting on lessons learned during the crisis. One of the most sobering lessons that data on the pandemic have highlighted is the fractured state of health equity in the United States. The staggering impact of the >600,000 deaths from COVID-19 has been most prominently...Keywords
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