Asking for a COVID patient’s race or ethnicity should be as basic as asking for name and age. So why don’t we have sufficient data about race and ethnicity? Utibe Essien helps us mind the racial data gaps in this pandemic and why we need them to provide treatment.
Click above to listen to part 2 of Race and COVID, featuring Utibe Essien, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and a Core Investigator, Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System.
Race and COVID:
Part 1: Marcella Nunez Smith / Racial Disparity
Part 2: Utibe Essien / Racial Data
Part 3: Nina Jablonski / Skin Color
Part 4: Robert Sapolsky / Us vs. Them
Part 5: Harold Frazier / COVID checkpoint
