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4 ways to close the COVID-19 racial health gap

  • Written by Tamra Burns Loeb, Adjunct Associate Professor - Interim, UCLA School of Medicine
imageNew strategies are needed to help people of color battle the COVID-19 virus.dmbaker via Getty Images

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the reality that health in the U.S. has glaring racial inequities. Since March, people of color have been more likely to get sick and more likely to die from COVID-19 infection because they have been living and...

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