Health Equity

‘All You Want Is To Be Believed’: Sick With COVID-19 And Facing Racial Bias In The ER

Abstract: When a Latina woman went to a Bay Area hospital, a doctor was dismissive of her COVID symptoms. Is unconscious bias one reason people of color are disproportionately affected by the coronavirus?

Publication: WBUR

Date Published: October 21, 2020

Author(s): April Dembosky

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