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COVID-19: Racism Is Like That
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)'s impact has similar characteristics to racism and its effects. First, there is no known immunity to COVID-19 or racism. Second, we wear uncomfortable masks to protect us from the virus. Being black in America requires wearing an uncomfortable invisible mask,...
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Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers
2020
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7585616/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33111030 http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/heq.2020.0063 |
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| author | Brown, Elizabeth A. |
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| description | Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)'s impact has similar characteristics to racism and its effects. First, there is no known immunity to COVID-19 or racism. Second, we wear uncomfortable masks to protect us from the virus. Being black in America requires wearing an uncomfortable invisible mask, hiding anxiety and fear. Third, physical distancing is promoted to reduce COVID-19 transmission. With racism, physical distancing has occurred from the Atlantic Slave Trade to segregation and redlining. COVID-19 has punished communities of color, just like racism has. COVID-19 has suffocated America just like racism does to blacks. If America is tired of COVID-19, imagine how blacks feel. |
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| spelling | pubmed-75856162020-10-26 COVID-19: Racism Is Like That Brown, Elizabeth A. Health Equity Perspective Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)'s impact has similar characteristics to racism and its effects. First, there is no known immunity to COVID-19 or racism. Second, we wear uncomfortable masks to protect us from the virus. Being black in America requires wearing an uncomfortable invisible mask, hiding anxiety and fear. Third, physical distancing is promoted to reduce COVID-19 transmission. With racism, physical distancing has occurred from the Atlantic Slave Trade to segregation and redlining. COVID-19 has punished communities of color, just like racism has. COVID-19 has suffocated America just like racism does to blacks. If America is tired of COVID-19, imagine how blacks feel. Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers 2020-10-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7585616/ /pubmed/33111030 http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/heq.2020.0063 Text en © Elizabeth A. Brown, 2020; Published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. This Open Access article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| spellingShingle | Perspective Brown, Elizabeth A. COVID-19: Racism Is Like That |
| title | COVID-19: Racism Is Like That |
| title_full | COVID-19: Racism Is Like That |
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| title_short | COVID-19: Racism Is Like That |
| title_sort | covid-19: racism is like that |
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| url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7585616/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33111030 http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/heq.2020.0063 |
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