COVID-19, Data, and Health Justice
Commonwealth Fund April 16, 2020
Toplines
The U.S. lacks the necessary population health data to understand how COVID-19 affects different populations and social groups
As COVID-19 rips through the United States and many other countries, it exposes the fault lines of social injustice and divisions that determine whether people have necessary resources. In the face of critical stay-at-home orders, who has a job with sick-leave benefits? Health insurance? A living wage? Or a home with Internet access?
Exposing these inequities requires people who can systematically collect, organize, and publicly report the evidence. But in the U.S.,...