Opinion: U.S. Must Avoid Building Racial Bias Into COVID-19 Emergency Guidance

A hospital patient in Stamford, Conn., who has COVID-19 symptoms gets his temperature checked. Severe infections with the novel coronavirus have been unusually high among African Americans and Latinos in many hospitals.

States are releasing “Crisis Standards of Care” guidelines, aimed at helping desperate hospitals discern how to allocate scarce resources. But the guidance doesn’t factor in health care inequalities.

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