How coronavirus has exposed racial bias in healthcare
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8th July 2020
This might make you feel uncomfortable, perhaps even defensive. Talking about racism will do that, but we don't have the luxury of ignoring the topic.
COVID-19 is disproportionately killing people of colour.
A recent Associated Press analysis of the available race and ethnicity data for COVID-19 found that nearly one third of those in America who have died are African American, even though they represent only 14% of the population.1
We doctors are doing our minority patients a disservice if