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Public Health Disparities, Humanism, and COVID-19
BY FRANCES FERNANDO, NICHD
“We are only as healthy as the least healthy person in our society.” –Lisa Cooper
For Lisa Cooper, COVID-19 health disparities are the result of both infectious disease and social pandemics. Her recent
JAMA editorial, “A New Kind of Herd Immunity,” ascribes a social definition to the commonly known public health term. Similar to COVID-19, social deprivation is an infection that spreads within communities and is invisible. At the heart of Cooper’s humanistic messaging is the collective responsibility that we, as members of communities, have to each other and the interconnectedness of our lives, our social structures, and our institutions ( ....

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