Below please find a summary and link(s) of new coronavirus-related content published today in Annals of Internal Medicine. The summaries below are not intended to substitute for the full article as a source of information. A collection of coronavirus-related content is free to the public at http://go.annals.org/coronavirus.
1. Health Insurance Status and Risk Factors for Poor Outcomes With COVID-19 Among U.S. Health Care Workers: A Cross-Sectional Study
In this brief research report published in Annals of Internal Medicine, researchers from the City University of New York at Hunter College use survey data to assess the number of U.S. health care workers providing direct patient care who have risk factors for a poor outcome if they develop COVID-19 or who lack health insurance or sick leave. Read the full text: http://annals.org/aim/article/doi/10.7326/M20-1874.
Media contacts: A PDF for this article is not yet available. Please click the link to read full text. The lead author David U. Himmelstein, MD, can be reached through Claure Fauke at clare@pnhp.org.
2. This Time Must Be Different: Disparities During the COVID-19 Pandemic
African Americans and Latinos are overrepresented among cases of and deaths from COVID-19 nationally and in many of the U.S. regions hardest hit by the pandemic. An editorialist from the University of California, San Francisco discusses lessons that we should have learned from prior experiences and strategies to reduce observed disparities. Read the full text: http://annals.org/aim/article/doi/10.7326/M20-2247.
Media contacts: A PDF for this article is not yet available. Please click the link to read full text. The lead author Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS, can be reached directly at Kirsten.Bibbins-Domingo@ucsf.edu.
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Annals of Internal Medicine