Centering Equity and Community in the Recovery of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

N C Med J

associate professor, Division of General Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology; associate director, Center for Health Equity Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Published: January 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed socioeconomic, geographic, and medical vulnerabilities in our country. In North Carolina, inequalities resulting from centuries of structural racism exacerbate disparate impacts of infection and death. We propose three opportunities that leaders in our state can embrace to move toward equity as we weather, and emerge from, this pandemic.

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