Health Equity

How cities lost precious time to protect African American residents from coronavirus

Abstract: The slow release of statistics on the virus’s effect based on race was an early flare that the response to the disease would follow familiar racial lines.

Publication: The Washington Post

Date Published: June 3, 2020

Author(s): Robert Samuels, Aaron Williams, Tracy Jan and Jose A. Del Real

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