Race, COVID-19 and deaths of despair

Patrick J Arena¹, Monica Malta^{2

3}, Anne W Rimoin¹, Steffanie A Strathdee⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Epidemiology, Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, United States.
² Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
³ Institute for Mental Health Policy Research, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁴ Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, California, United States.

Patrick J Arena et al. EClinicalMedicine. 2020.

. 2020 Jul 31:25:100485.

doi: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2020.100485. eCollection 2020 Aug.

Patrick J Arena¹, Monica Malta^{2

3}, Anne W Rimoin¹, Steffanie A Strathdee⁴

¹ Department of Epidemiology, Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, United States.
² Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
³ Institute for Mental Health Policy Research, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁴ Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, California, United States.

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Conflict of interest statement

MM, AWR and SAS declare no competing interest for this study. PJA is a part-time contractor for Pfizer Inc., New York, NY, US.

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