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**The Latest Research, Commentary, and News from Health Affairs**

**Thursday, July 2, 2020**

Racism & COVID-19

COVID-19 has affected an estimated 10.7 million people, resulting in an
estimated half a million deaths globally, including more than 128,000
deaths in the US. As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, stark disparities in
infection and mortality risk along racial lines have emerged.

**Understanding and addressing racial disparities in COVID-19 requires
attention to the root causes of health disparities-and, in particular,
to the health impacts of racism.** Racism, be it overt, structural, or
environmental, is an undeniable part of the United States' history and
present.

**Writing on Health Affairs Blog, researchers and providers explore the
intersections of racism, health disparities, and COVID-19.**

* Dismantling health care inequities will require addressing the
structural racism at the root
of
both COVID-19 disparities and the murders of George Floyd and other
Black Americans, Alexander Bryan and coauthors write.

* Sandra Soo-Jin Lee and coauthors say the COVID-19 recovery phase
presents "a rare and critical opportunity" to pursue audacious
policies

that dismantle structural inequities and address structural racism,
including redirecting state spending on prisons to public health.

* Despite racism's alarming impacts on health and health care,
preeminent scholars and the journals that publish them, including

**Health Affairs**, routinely fail to interrogate racism
as
a critical driver of racial health inequities, Rhea Boyd and coauthors
write.

* Drawing lessons from Critical Race Theory, Michelle Morse and
colleagues argue that the COVID-19 crisis offers a unique opportunity to
mobilize US physicians
to
advocate for progressive social policies that dismantle structural
racism and structure our society more equitably.

* Acknowledging the urgency of both health and racial justice in this
moment, Sheila Foster and coauthors set forth a legal agenda to fight
the health effects of racism
in
housing, policing, the environment, and other areas.

As

**Health Affairs** Editor-In-Chief Alan Weil wrote recently
,
the legacy of racism "is baked into our institutions, our thinking,
and our policies."

**Racism must be explored as a key driver of health outcomes and health
disparities.**

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@Health_Affairs.

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