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COVID-19: A Barometer for Social Justice in New York City
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COVID-19: A Barometer for Social Justice in New York City
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From the article: A recent study by researchers at Harvard University found that mortality ratios for Black and Latinx communities in the United States were 3.6 and 2.6 times higher, respectively, than the mortality ratio for non-Hispanic Whites,1 a stark gap also reported in New York City (NYC).2 Other similar patterns have been found in NYC over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. Mortality rates for the Latinx and Black populations are 242 per 100 000 and 226 per 100 000, respectively, both more than twice those for White and Asian American residents.3 Surveys conducted by the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy and others tell an even more alarming story. The gaps in mortality rates are just the tip of an iceberg of long-standing public health–related inequities among people of color in the United States. These discrepancies threaten all US citizens—wealthy and poor alike—and they have been exacerbated by the coronavirus.
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Article
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https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2020.305939
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English
Cities & Suburbs
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Race & Ethnicity
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Healthcare
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Public Health & Hospitals
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02/18/2021
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02/21/2021
08/02/2022
Date Created (Dublin Core)
10/07/2020
This item was submitted on February 18, 2021 by Dana Bell using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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