 In New York City, for example, the hardest hit area of the pandemic, 60% of the essential workers in New York City are persons of color.3 Research also documents that in disadvantage communities, even if you get access to primary medical care, many of those primary care providers do not have admitting privileges at the best academically based or private health care systems where the best specialists are, so that those populations are also limited in the access to quality care

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If you look at the latest income data for the United States, published in 2019 by the U.S Census Bureau1, we find that for every dollar of household income White households receive, African American households receive .59 cents. That .59 cents to the dollar figure is identical to the racial gap in income in 1978.

Wage gap and racial inequality

The Brain Architects Podcast: Addressing Racial Disparities in COVID-19. (2020, May 06). Retrieved July 27, 2020, from https://developingchild.harvard.edu/resources/the-brain-architects-podcast-covid-19-special-edition-creating-communities-of-opportunity/

The Brain Architects Podcast: COVID-19 Special Edition: Creating Communities of Opportunity

In virtually every country of the world, persons of lower levels of education and income have higher rates of disease and death than those who are better off than they are.  The latest report from the Federal Reserve Board indicates that for every dollar of wealth White households have, African American households have .10 cents, and Latino households have .12 cents.What we know is that minorities have early onset of disease, early onset of chronic conditions, hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, all occur at younger ages because of lower income and stress

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