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The Unsurprising Surprise of Social Determinants in COVID-19 Mortality

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“Covid-19 exposes America’s racial health gap,” asserts The Economist , the weekly news magazine based in London, UK, in an advanced essay dated 11 April 2020. The subtitle of the piece: “African-Americans appear more vulnerable to the virus.” As African-American patients have been admitted to U.S.

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Patients, Health Consumers, People, Citizens: Who Are We In America?

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The paper that asserts “no” to the question comes from Michael Gusmano, Karen Maschke, and Mildred Solomon, all associated with the Hastings Center which does research into bioethics. The authors call for improved regulation from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the U.S.

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