Measuring racial inequities in COVID-19 testing
What The Study Did:
This study adapted a well-established tool for measuring inequity from economics–the Lorenz curve–to measure racial inequities in COVID-19 testing.
Author:
Aaloke Mody, M.D., of the Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, is the corresponding author.
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