Commentary Open Access
Volume 1 | Issue 3 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.46439/allergy.1.011
Policy and law changes to address healthcare inequities for minority populations during COVID-19
Christina M. Williams1, Rahul Chaturvedi2,*, Rodney A. Gabriel3,4
- 1Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
- 2School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
- 3Department of Anesthesiology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
- 4Department of Medicine, Division of Biomedical Informatics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Corresponding Author
Rahul Chaturvedi, rchaturv@health.ucsd.edu
Received Date: July 24, 2020
Accepted Date: August 18, 2020
Williams CM, Chaturvedi R, Gabriel RA. Policy and law changes to address healthcare inequities for minority populations during COVID-19. J Allergy Infect Dis; 1(3):49-52.
Copyright: © 2020 Williams CM, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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