Structural Racism, Social Risk Factors, and Covid-19 — A Dangerous Convergence for Black Americans (NEJM)
Perspective by Leonard E. Egede, M.D., and Rebekah J. Walker, Ph.D. July 22, 2020, DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp2023616 . *Author Affiliations: From the Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, and the Center for Advancing Population Science, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Current protests throughout the United States are highlighting the history of marginalization of and discrimination against Black Americans, including 250 years of slavery, 100 years of Jim Crow laws,...