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How to address the coronavirus’s outsized toll on people of colour

US scientists say that better data, testing and hospital preparedness are key to erasing inequalities — and to defeating the pandemic overall.
  1. Nidhi Subbaraman
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As figures emerge about the disproportionate toll that COVID-19 is taking on people of colour in the United States, scientists are suggesting measures to help mitigate the inequalities.

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Nature 581, 366-367 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01470-x

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