Health care disparities during the COVID-19 pandemic

• Type of Material: Article
• Authors: Elizabeth Ann Andraska, University of Pittsburgh; Olamide Alabi, Emory University; Chelsea Dorsey, University of Chicago; Young Erben, Mayo Clinic; Gabriela Velazquez, Wake Forest School of Medicine; Camila Franco-Mesa, Mayo Clinic; Ulka Sachdeu, University of Pittsburgh
• Language: English
• Date: 2021-10-09
• Publisher: W B SAUNDERS CO-ELSEVIER INC
• Publication Version: Final Published Version
• Copyright Statement: © 2021 Published by Elsevier Inc.
• Final Published Version (URL): http://dx.doi.org/10.1053/j.semvascsurg.2021.08.002
• Title of Journal or Parent Work: SEMINARS IN VASCULAR SURGERY
• Volume: 34
• Issue: 3
• Start Page: 82
• End Page: 88
• Grant/Funding Information: This research was supported in part by grant 5T32HL0098036 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (to E. A. Andraska). The University of Pittsburgh holds a Physician-Scientist Institutional Award from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund (E. A. Andraska).
• Keywords: Peripheral Vascular Disease; Science & Technology; Life Sciences & Biomedicine; GAY; Cardiovascular System & Cardiology; STATES; Surgery
• Research Categories: Health Sciences, Public Health; Health Sciences, Medicine and Surgery

Abstract

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, is a pandemic with more than 32 million cases and more than 500,000 deaths nationwide. With the significant health consequences seen secondary to COVID-19, health care disparities have been further exacerbated. Mechanisms that have been proposed to account for the increased disparity seen during the COVID-19 pandemic are multifactorial. This review of the literature outlines the unique barriers to health and disparities that are associated with vulnerable communities who have been most impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.