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  2020-12-01

  Five Experts Reflect on the Health Equity Implications of the Pandemic

  The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Blog published this article which contains the words of 5 different experts on health inequity during the pandemic.
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  2020-06-09

  Why Social Justice Is Central to Treating COVID-19

  From article: Racism and classism create conditions where people of color, those living in poverty, and other marginalized groups have limited access to resources that affect health
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  2020-08-20

  'Will the COVID-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter change science and society?'

  This piece discusses the ways the COVID-19 pandemic, which disproportionately affects black communities, intersects with the Black Lives Matter movement with potential to change the trajectories of health, science, and society.
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  2020-06-12

  "Why Racism, Not Race, Is a Risk Factor for Dying of COVID-19"

  From the article: "Public health specialist and physician Camara Phyllis Jones talks about ways that jobs, communities and health care leave Black Americans more exposed and less protected"
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  2020-08-01

  "Too Many Black Americans Are Dying from COVID-19"

  From the article: "The U.S. has been roiled this year by two crises that seem on the surface to be unrelated: the coronavirus pandemic and law-enforcement killings of black Americans—the latter leading to mass protests and police violence toward protesters. Although the immediate causes of these two tragedies seem distinct, both have their roots in structural racism. The virus has killed a disproportionate number of black people (as well as other people of color), and black people are by some estimates 2.5 times more likely than white people to be killed by the police. Support is building for police reform, and we can take concrete steps immediately to protect the health of black Americans."