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Vinay Prasad, MD, MPH, breaks down a new study that examined differences in breast cancer screenings before and during the COVID-19 pandemic overall, and among sociodemographic population groups
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Hey, welcome back. Vinay Prasad here for
MedPage Today, I m here with my segment, Articles You Will Definitely Read (Later). And I got a new article. It just came out in JAMA Network Open, and it s entitled Socioeconomic and Racial Inequities in Breast Cancer Screening During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Washington State.
So let s take a look into this study. This is a study that just appears in
JAMA Network Open, and the authors look at something very simple. Now we ve known all along that COVID-19 can disrupt healthcare systems in several ways.