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Measuring racial inequities in COVID-19 testing

2021-01-08
(Press-News.org) 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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