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COVID-19 and African Americans.

Clyde W. Yancy
- 19 May 2020 - 
- Vol. 323, Iss: 19, pp 1891-1892
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This article is published in JAMA.The article was published on 2020-05-19 and is currently open access. It has received 1588 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Betacoronavirus & Pneumonia.

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COVID-19 and Racial/Ethnic Disparities.

TL;DR: The authors found that African American individuals and to a lesser extent, Latino individuals bear a disproportionate burden of COVID-19-related outcomes, with the most severe presentation being acute respiratory distress syndrome leading to severe complications and death.
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Mobility network models of COVID-19 explain inequities and inform reopening.

TL;DR: A metapopulation susceptible–exposed–infectious–removed (SEIR) model that integrates fine-grained, dynamic mobility networks to simulate the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in ten of the largest US metropolitan areas is introduced and correctly predicts higher infection rates among disadvantaged racial and socioeconomic groups.
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Determinants of COVID-19 vaccine acceptance in the US.

TL;DR: There were noticeable demographic and geographical disparities in vaccine acceptance, and Black Americans reported lower influenza vaccine uptake and lower COVID-19 vaccine acceptance than all other racial groups reported in this study.
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Association of Treatment With Hydroxychloroquine or Azithromycin With In-Hospital Mortality in Patients With COVID-19 in New York State.

TL;DR: Among patients hospitalized in metropolitan New York with COVID-19, treatment with hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin, or both, compared with neither treatment, was not significantly associated with differences in in-hospital mortality.
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TL;DR: The association between cardiac injury and mortality in patients with COVID-19 was analyzed and it was found that patients with cardiac injury had a higher proportion of multiple mottling and ground-glass opacity in radiographic findings than those without cardiac injury.
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TL;DR: A series of multifaceted public health interventions was temporally associated with improved control of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, China, and may inform public health policy in other countries and regions.
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Social Determinants of Risk and Outcomes for Cardiovascular Disease A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association

TL;DR: An Institute of Medicine report documents the decline in the health status of Americans relative to people in other high-income countries, concluding that “Americans are dying and suffering from illness and injury at rates that are demonstrably unnecessary.
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Association of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) With Myocardial Injury and Mortality.

TL;DR: Two articles published in JAMA Cardiology from 2 academic hospitals in Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, support these concepts while also providing novel insights into the incidence and consequences of myocardial injury associated with SARS-CoV-2.
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