Health Equity

Black Americans, suffering disproportionately from COVID-19, face a mounting mental health crisis

Abstract: Black and Hispanic Americans — who have disproportionately suffered from COVID-19 and its economic fallout — appear to be shouldering an even heavier mental health burden as a racial justice movement has ripped open centuries-old wounds of systemic oppression.

Publication: The Boston Globe

Date Published: September 7, 2020

Author(s): Deanna Pan

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