COVID-19 Disparities and the Black Community: A Health Equity-Informed Rapid Response Is Needed.

Am J Public Health

Italo M. Brown and Ayesha Khan are with the Department of Emergency Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA. Jamar Slocum is with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD. Linelle F. Campbell is with the Department of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Jacobi/Montefiore Health System, Bronx, NY. Jahmil R. Lacey is with the Charles R. Drew Medical Education Program, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA. Alden Landry is with the Office for Diversity Inclusion and Community Partnership, Castle Society at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

Published: September 2020

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