Commonwealth Fund April 16, 2020
Nancy Krieger

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The U.S. lacks the necessary population health data to understand how COVID-19 affects different populations and social groups

To better understand how the pandemic is making health inequities worse, we need to create and publicly report data on 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.,...

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