Keisha Bentley-Edwards and colleagues argue that systemic racism and economic inequality are at the root of disparity in covid-19 outcomes and suggest how to distribute resources more equitably.
The story of covid-19 in the United States is one of many systemic failures to protect its residents from preventable illness and death. Racist stereotypes about disease susceptibility1 were subsequently discredited by the data.2 Covid-19 brought the US to a sobering standoff with race, a social construct that through systemic racism materializes as disparate outcomes (box 1).3 Once testing became available researchers disaggregated and analyzed data along racial lines, providing a more accurate understanding that was unsurprising to anyone who has examined health equity4: covid-19 is a preventable disease that disproportionately affects racial minorities. Although the effects were felt in all racialized communities, they were magnified most powerfully for black, Latino, and indigenous people
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This talk is an expansion of one that Dr. Robinson recorded for an upcoming SER 2021 symposium. That symposium is titled, “What has the pandemic revealed about the shortcomings of modern epidemiology? What can we fix or do better?” In that talk and here, she discusses two shortcomings she perceives in academic epidemiology’s response to the COVID-19 outbreak. One is an overreliance on conditional statistics and the other is workforce that is too homogenous with respect to the diversity of the US population.
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