Health Equity

Medical bias: From pain pills to COVID-19, racial discrimination in health care festers

Abstract: Discrimination in the health care system contributes to the stark disparities seen in how COVID-19 sickens and kills patients of color, experts agree.

Publication: USA Today

Date Published: June 14, 2020

Author(s): Jayne O'Donnell and Ken Alltucker

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