Vanderbilt Researcher Finds COVID-19 Pandemic Shapes Opportunities for Radical Change to the U.S. Health Care System
June 05, 2020
June 05, 2020
NASHVILLE, Tennessee, June 5 -- Vanderbilt University issued the following news:
As the U.S. mourns the tragic number of lives lost due to the mindless COVID-19 virus it has also dramatically revealed how greatly institutionalized inequality and structural racism - social, economic and systemic - shapes the inability of low wealth and minoritized populations to get through this pandemic alive as well as others, according to Jonathan Metzl, Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Soc . . .
As the U.S. mourns the tragic number of lives lost due to the mindless COVID-19 virus it has also dramatically revealed how greatly institutionalized inequality and structural racism - social, economic and systemic - shapes the inability of low wealth and minoritized populations to get through this pandemic alive as well as others, according to Jonathan Metzl, Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Soc . . .