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Editorial
. 2021 Feb;147(2):504-506.
doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2020.10.034. Epub 2020 Nov 5.

The United States' reckoning with racism during the COVID-19 pandemic: What can we learn and do as allergist-immunologists?

Lakiea S Wright  1 , Margee Louisias  2 , Wanda Phipatanakul  3
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Editorial

The United States' reckoning with racism during the COVID-19 pandemic: What can we learn and do as allergist-immunologists?

Lakiea S Wright et al. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2021 Feb.
No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; asthma; disparities; pandemic; racism; structural racism.

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Multilevel approach to dismantling racism. Approach to dismantling racism from the individual to the policy level.
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