@article {1302127, title = {The Fierce Urgency Of Now: Closing Glaring Gaps In US Surveillance Data On COVID-19}, journal = {Health Affairs }, year = {2020}, abstract = {
In order to have a robust understanding of the impacts of COVID-19, data on racial, economic, and gender inequities must be collected.\ 

It is insufficient to ask simply whether the virus is or is not present. Social data about who is infected are crucial for responding to needs now and will allow for better estimation of the likely spread and impact of COVID-19, the toll of which will be measured not only in deaths but also in the second-order, socially disparate spill-over effects on people{\textquoteright}s economic well-being and safety. Real-time fast journalistic reporting and advocacy groups in the US and other countries are pointing to the critical importance of racial/ethnic, economic, and gender inequities to shaping COVID-19 risks. In the past week, calls for data on COVID-19 by race/ethnicity have been issued by leading politicians, including Senator Elizabeth Warren and Congresswoman Ayana Pressley, the Congressional Black Caucus, the National Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law, and by journalists. Why aren{\textquoteright}t the public health data documenting these risks available?

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}, url = {https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20200414.238084/full/?utm_content=buffer71221\&utm_medium=social\&utm_source=twitter.com\&utm_campaign=buffer\&}, author = {Nancy Krieger and Gregg Gonsalves and Mary T. Bassett and William Hanage and Harlan M. Krumholz} }