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  2. Racial disparities in the COVID-19 pandemic in the United ...

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    To address the question of why some racial groups are disproportionately affected by COVID-19, the CDC compiled a list of factors linking a racial group to increased risk of COVID-19 exposure. [31] These factors are well-linked to the social determinants of health, the social contributors that influence heath outcomes for a particular group ...

  3. Public health mitigation of COVID-19 - Wikipedia

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    COVID-19 endemicity is distinct from the COVID-19 public health emergency of international concern, which was ended by the World Health Organization on 5 May 2023. [85] Some politicians and commentators have conflated what they termed endemic COVID-19 with the lifting of public health restrictions or a comforting return to pre-pandemic normality.

  4. Flattening the curve - Wikipedia

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    Flattening the curve is a public health strategy to slow down the spread of an epidemic, used against the SARS-CoV-2 virus during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. The curve being flattened is the epidemic curve, a visual representation of the number of infected people needing health care over time. During an epidemic, a health care ...

  5. How Disparities in Our Health-Care System Impact How We Test ...

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    Racial disparities in treatment started well before COVID-19. 2. Sign this petition from the Black Lives Matter movement demanding the collection and release of more racial demographic data ...

  6. How can racial equity in coronavirus vaccinations be achieved?

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  7. Center for American Indian and Rural Health Equity - Wikipedia

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    In 2020 the center was awarded a $1.8 million two-year grant from the NIH to research COVID-19 testing strategies in under-served populations in Montana and Washington. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The grant was part of the NIH's $1.4 billion Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) initiative, which was created in the first weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic to ...

  8. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the African diaspora

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    These disparities are believed to originate from structural racism in these countries which pre-dates the pandemic; a commentary in The BMJ noted that "ethnoracialised differences in health outcomes have become the new normal across the world" as a result of ethnic and racial disparities in COVID-19 healthcare, determined by social factors. [1]

  9. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on other health issues

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    The COVID-19 pandemic has had many impacts on global health beyond those caused by the COVID-19 disease itself. It has led to a reduction in hospital visits for other reasons. There have been 38 per cent fewer hospital visits for heart attack symptoms in the United States and 40 per cent fewer in Spain. [1]