Recent data show that communities of color are at much higher risk of being infected and dying from COVID-19. Social impacts to these communities may also differ. Here are recent articles and data on these important emerging topics.
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| Title | Source |
|---|---|
| What the Racial Data Show: The pandemic seems to be hitting people of color the hardest. The Atlantic Ibram X. Kendi April 6, 2020 https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/coronavirus-exposing-our-racial-divides/609526/ |
News; magazine article |
| What the COVID-19 Pandemic Means for Black Americans: The bias built into the health system means they will have worse outcomes on average if they get sick Scientific American Uché Blackstock April 7, 2020 https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/what-the-covid-19-pandemic-means-for-black-americans/ |
Blog |
| Epidemics and Health Disparities in African American Communities: A Conversation with David R. Williams The Project on Race & Gender in Science & Medicine, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research Hosted by Evelynn M. Hammonds April 9, 2020 https://youtu.be/vC1FTLGS0Zw View the original event page here |
Event, webcast, video |
| With coronavirus, racism is the underlying condition Boston Globe Jeneé Osterheldt April 10, 2010 https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/04/10/nation/with-coronavirus-racism-is-underlying-condition/ |
event, webinar, video |
| An unequal crisis: Addressing the intersectional dimensions of COVID-19 YW Boston Beth Chandler, Dr. Julie Levison, and Dr. Jonathan Jackson April 14, 2020 https://www.ywboston.org/2020/04/an-unequal-crisis-addressing-the-intersectional-dimensions-of-covid-19/ View the webinar here |
event, webinar, video |
| COVID-19 targets communities of color The Harvard Gazette Colleen Walsh April 14, 2020 https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/04/health-care-disparities-in-the-age-of-coronavirus/ |
News |
| COVID-19 pandemic highlights longstanding health inequities in U.S. Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University April 14, 2020 https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/covid-19-pandemic-highlights-longstanding-health-inequities-in-u-s/ Read the New Yorker article here |
News |
| The Myth of Innate Racial Differences Between White and Black People’s Bodies: Lessons From the 1793 Yellow Fever Epidemic in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: A Conversation with Rana Hogarth The Project on Race & Gender in Science & Medicine, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research Hosted by Evelynn M. Hammonds April 16, 2020 https://youtu.be/RxzceX2qM-g View the original event page here |
Event, webinar, video |
| Who's Hit Hardest By COVID-19? Why Obesity, Stress And Race All Matter NPR Allison Aubrey April 18, 2020 www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/04/18/835563340/whos-hit-hardest-by-covid-19-why-obesity-stress-and-race-all-matter |
News |
| Growing Data Underscore that Communities of Color are Being Harder Hit by COVID-19 Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) Samantha Artiga, Kendal Orgera, Olivia Pham, and Bradley Corallo April 21, 2020 https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-policy-watch/growing-data-underscore-communities-color-harder-hit-covid-19/ |
News |
| Lessons Not Learned: Smallpox and African Americans in the 1860s: A Conversation with Jim Downs The Project on Race & Gender in Science & Medicine, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research Hosted by Evelynn M. Hammonds April 23, 2020 https://youtu.be/uRbktjWfyh4 View the original event page here |
event, webinar, video |
| To Protect Black Americans from the Worst Impacts of COVID-19, Release Comprehensive Racial Data: Properly reported information is crucial for black communities to recover from this crisis and transcend a history of exclusion Scientific American Joia Crear-Perry and Michael McAfee April 24, 2020 https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/to-protect-black-americans-from-the-worst-impacts-of-covid-19-release-comprehensive-racial-data/ |
Blog |
| Questions of Bias in Covid-19 Treatment Add to the Mourning for Black Families: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have advised health professionals to be on the lookout for medical bias. The New York Times John Eligon and Audra D. S. Burch May 10, 2020 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/10/us/coronavirus-african-americans-bias.html |
News |
| Pulmonary and cardiac pathology in African American patients with COVID-19: an autopsy series from New Orleans The Lancet Sharon E Fox, MD; Aibek Akmatbekov, MD; Jack L Harbert, MD; Guang Li, MS; J Quincy Brown, PhD; and Prof Richard S Vander Heide, MD May 27, 2020 https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(20)30243-5/fulltext View the article here |
Journal article |
| Poll Shows Only A Quarter Of African Americans Plan To Get Coronavirus Vaccine NPR Brakkton Booker May 27, 2020 https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/05/27/863401430/poll-shows-only-a-quarter-of-african-americans-plan-to-get-coronavirus-vaccine |
News |
| Black Americans face higher COVID-19 risks, are more hesitant to trust medical scientists, get vaccinated Pew Research Center John Gramlich and Cary Funk June 4, 2020 https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/06/04/black-americans-face-higher-covid-19-risks-are-more-hesitant-to-trust-medical-scientists-get-vaccinated/ |
News |
| A black ER doctor reflects on everyday encounters with racism Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University June 11, 2020 https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/a-black-er-doctor-reflects-on-everyday-encounters-with-racism/ Read The Washington Post article here |
News |
| Experts: Health care system’s racial bias contributes to COVID-19 disparities Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University June 14, 2020 https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/experts-health-care-systems-racial-bias-contributes-to-covid-19-disparities/ Read the USA Today article here Watch the video here |
News, video |
| We Need to Recruit More Black Americans in Vaccine Trials New York Times Wayne A. I. Frederick et al. September 11, 2020 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/11/opinion/vaccine-testing-black-americans.html?referringSource=articleShare |
Opinion |
| Six Months of the Coronavirus in Black America Slate Julia Craven September 13, 2020 https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/09/black-america-coronavirus-deaths-explanation.html |
Interview |
| A COVID-19 Vaccine May Be Only 50% Effective. Is That Good Enough? NPR Allison Aubrey https://www.npr.org/transcripts/911987987 |
Podcast |
| COVID-19 Expert Database Meedan https://learnaboutcovid19.org/ |
Open-access database |
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