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CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 72, Issue 4, Pages 703-706Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciaa815
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COVID-19; marginalized communities; pandemic; racial disparities; SARS-CoV-2
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The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected minority groups like African American, Native American, and LatinX communities with higher death rates. These disparities may be caused by biomedical factors and social determinants of health. Minority groups are more likely to have chronic medical conditions and lower access to healthcare, leading to worse COVID-19 outcomes.
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has disproportionately affected racial and ethnic minority groups, with high rates of death in African American, Native American, and LatinX communities. Although the mechanisms of these disparities are being investigated, they can be conceived as arising from biomedical factors as well as social determinants of health. Minority groups are disproportionately affected by chronic medical conditions and lower access to healthcare that may portend worse COVID-19 outcomes. Furthermore, minority communities are more likely to experience living and working conditions that predispose them to worse outcomes. Underpinning these disparities are long-standing structural and societal factors that the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed. Clinicians can partner with patients and communities to reduce the short-term impact of COVID-19 disparities while advocating for structural change.
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