Crystal Cené, MD, MPH, recognizes documented research on vast racial disparities in health in an NBC News interview, but says there is “little evidence of pandemic response plans focusing resources on black Americans.”
In the article, she introduces a list of needed actions that include “a mass expansion of testing and deploying students in a number of disciplines — sociology, social work, medicine, public health and others — to call and educate or check in with people with pre-existing conditions that make them vulnerable, potentially putting them in touch with doctors via telemedicine.”
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