Becker's Healthcare August 11, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare a sad truth in America: health outcomes are too often based on race, ethnicity and zip code, a track record that places us behind our global peers, one that needs our collective attention for once and all.
A recent analysis published in the New York Times based on CDC data concluded that Latino and African-American people in the U.S. are three times as likely to become infected with the virus as whites and are nearly twice as likely to die from it than whites. These unacceptable gaps take on even more urgency as the nation mourns the loss of Congressman John Lewis who championed equality in all realms of life.
To eliminate these inequalities,...
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