The COVID-19 pandemic has amplified the health disparities in America’s communities of color in such dramatic fashion that racism is now seen as a public health emergency. In the season finale of “Beyond the White Coat,” David Skorton, AAMC president and CEO, and Malika Fair, MD, senior director of health equity partnerships and programs at the AAMC, discuss what forces are driving the disparities in health care access, how physicians can work to acknowledge and address racism against Black Americans, and what the academic medicine community can do to address institutional and systemic racism.
The novel coronavirus is killing black Americans at staggeringly higher rates than white Americans. On this episode The New York Times The Daily Podcast examines how longstanding inequality is compounding the crisis.
Living with the COVID-19 pandemic for a year, it’s hard to process the numbers. What we know is that nearly 500,000 Americans have lost their lives, and that Black, Latino, and Indigenous people are worst impacted. But behind the statistics are stories, and on this episode of The Dose, we listen to one of those stories
As coronavirus tears an unforgiving path across the country, numbers show it is especially devastating to one group, African Americans. Dr. Monica Peek was studying racial health disparities before the coronavirus outbreak. Now her research is more important than ever.
The coronavirus pandemic has raised countless ethical questions: How do we balance restricting freedoms with protecting others, how do we ethically distribute vaccines, should we force people to get vaccinated—or should we ask healthy people to get infected with COVID-19 in the name of science?
While the current coronavirus pandemic is affecting all of us, it isn’t affecting all of us equally. Some communities—especially communities of color—are feeling the brunt of the virus more than others, in terms of higher rates of infection as well as economic fallout, among many other ways.
Tune into this episode of PwC's Next in Health to hear our Health Research Institute Leader, Benjamin Isgur, talk to Trine Tsouderos, Health Research Institute Regulatory Center Leader, address how a person's race disproportionately impacts the experience and risk associated with COVID-19 in the United States.
On this week's episode of PwC's Next in Health, join our Health Research Institute Leader, Benjamin Isgur, as he talks to Trine Tsouderos, Health Research Institute Regulatory Center Leader, about how people of different ages have been impacted by COVID-19. As the pandemic has unfolded, children once thought largely immune to the virus have started testing positive in large numbers.
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