COVID-19, Racism, and Racial Disparities in Kidney Disease: Galvanizing the Kidney Community Response

J Am Soc Nephrol. 2020 Aug;31(8):1-3. doi: 10.1681/ASN.2020060809. Epub 2020 Jul 13.

Deidra C Crews^{1

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¹ Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland dcrews1@jhmi.edu.
² Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland.
³ Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland.
⁴ Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.
⁵ Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.

Abstract

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Keywords: COVID-19; Ethnic minority; chronic kidney disease; health disparity; structural racism.