RESOURCES ON HEALTH DISPARITIES AND RACE IN AMERICA

THE EFFECTS OF COVID-19 ON RACE

• The Moral Determinants of Health, Journal of the American Medicine Association

• COVID-19 Effects on Race, New York Times

• Public Health Meets the Problem of the Color Line, Dr. Mary Bassett

• Structural Racism, Social Risk Factors, and COVID-19 — A Dangerous Convergence for Black Americans, NEJM Catalyst

• The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills, University of Chicago Press

• COVID-19 Pandemic, Unemployment; and Civil Unrest: Underlying Deep Racial and Socioeconomic Divides, JAMA 

• American Indian tribes thwarted in efforts to get coronavirus data, Politico

• MK Evans, et. al., Diagnosing and Treating Systemic Racism, New England J of Medicine 

• Website with links on articles about race and health written by Harvard faculty

THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON IMMIGRANT AND LATINX COMMUNITIES

• The Impact of COVID-19 on Undocumented and Immigrant Communities
  

• As Covid-19 Cases Surge, Latino Communities Feel the Brunt, Wall Street Journal

• Latinos now twice as likely as whites to get coronavirus in L.A. County, LA Times 

• ‘So much worse than I ever thought it would be’: Virus cases skyrocketing among Latinos, Politico

THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON RURAL POPULATIONS

• Identifying Vulnerable Rural Populations During COVID-19, The CDC’s Social Vulnerability Index

• COVID-19 and Rural Health Equity in Northern New England

WHAT CAN YOU DO?

Donate to Worthy Organizations

• List of Health Equity Organizations and Resources

• The National Medical Fellowships

• The Poor People's Campaign, an organization that confronts the interlocking evils of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, militarism and the war economy, and the distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism.

• City Block, a Boston based organization dedicated to building a new kind of care model that addresses the root causes of health, and in doing so, improves health in communities that have previously been underserved.

Vote

• In Era of Sickness Doctors Prescribe Unusual Cure - Voting, NY Times

General

• Who Is Driving Inequality? You Are How to rebuild social solidarity, NY Times

• Just Because You Can Afford to Leave the City Doesn’t Mean You Should, NY Times, Dr. Mary Bassett

WHAT CAN PHYSICIANS DO?

• Five Steps Physicians Can Take to Prioritize Black Patients’ Well Being, AMA Morning Rounds Blog

• The Medical World Can’t Put off Becoming Anti-racist, KHN

• Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Need for a Structurally Competent Health Care System, JAMA

• Black Physicians Make a Plea to America, Video

RACISM AND HEALTHCARE INSURANCE

• The ACA’s Impact On Racial And Ethnic Disparities In Health Insurance Coverage And Access To Care, Health Affairs

• The Effects of Medicaid Expansion under the ACA: Updated Findings from a Literature Review

• Protecting and Expanding Medicaid Means Confronting Racism Baked into the Program

OTHER COUNTRIES AND MODELS

• Coronavirus Could Hit us Harder than Other Wealthy Countries, Dr. Bassett and Dr. Linos, written on the day of the first US COVID-19 death

• Learning from Taiwan about responding to Covid-19 — and using electronic health records

TELEMEDICINE

• Telemedicine: Congress should make sure telemedicine is here to stay 

• The effects of telemedicine on racial and ethnic disparities in access to acute stroke care

IN THE UNITED STATES, SCIENCE BECOMES POLITICAL

• How did masks become a political issue in America? 

• What It Means When You Wear a Mask—and When You Refuse To 

• Letter in support of Fauci from members of the National Academy of Medicine as individuals "Now is not the time to turn our back on science."