Multiple reports suggest that the COVID-19 pandemic has amplified already existing disparities or inequities in health care systems across the country.
A new literature paper published in the “Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness” unveils that people with intellectual disabilities may face discrimination when seeking COVID-19 treatment due to unconscious biases in the health care system.
Curt Harris, the director of the Institute for Disaster Management in the University of Georgia’s College of Public Health, was a guest on Monday’s edition of “Closer Look.”
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