A doctor has been fired from her “dream job” as a small group facilitator at a medical school in California after she shared personal and historical incidents of racism during a talk with students More
Nonwhite Americans, those with low incomes or less than a high school education, and veterans were much more likely to die of COVID-19 than others in a simulation study published yesterday in PLOS Medicine, backing the findings of previous research. More
The CDC's vaccine guidelines put people with type 1 diabetes further down the list than people with type 2 diabetes. More
This study estimated the effects of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid expansion on hospital finances in 2017 to update earlier findings. The analysis also explored how the ACA Medicaid expansion affects different types of hospitals by size, ownership, rurality, and safety-net status. More
Covid-19 has taken an outsize toll on Black and Hispanic Americans — and those disparities extend to medical workers. More
Black individuals are 2 to 4 times more likely than others to progress to kidney failure and are less likely to receive optimal therapies, including kidney transplants. Reasons that contribute to these disparities include a variety of factors that are a direct result of structural racism, including poor access to health care, low educational attainment, and poverty. More
Since the beginning of the pandemic, workers in essential industries needing to work in person continued going to work and keeping the nation running while risking exposure to the novel coronavirus. More
Standardizing collection of race and ethnicity data across state and local health departments would help us better gauge Covid-19's impact. More
This observational study the assesses the association of a new trauma center with transport times for trauma patients as a measure of prompt access to care and specifically examines changes in racial, ethnic, and income disparities in transport times. More
Unlike the flu, the new coronavirus leaves children mostly unscathed. More