{"id":927,"date":"2020-08-04T18:18:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T01:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/?post_type=stories&#038;p=927"},"modified":"2025-06-10T13:18:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T20:18:05","slug":"this-time-must-be-different-disparities-during-the-covid-19-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"stories","link":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/stories\/this-time-must-be-different-disparities-during-the-covid-19-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"This Time Must Be Different: Disparities During the COVID-19 Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acpjournals.org\/doi\/10.7326\/M20-2247\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ACP Journals<\/a>, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo shares the deep disparities in COVID-19 infection and death rates among minority communities &#8211; and how things have not changed since the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic. The causes of these disparities are similar between pandemics, she explains: \u201cMinority communities are more likely to be exposed to the virus because they are overrepresented in the low-wage, essential workforce at the front lines, including low-wage health care workers who often move between clinics, hospitals, and nursing homes to make a living, thereby magnifying their risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Learn more from Kirsten about how to learn from past pandemics and ensure this time is different in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acpjournals.org\/doi\/10.7326\/M20-2247\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">full journal article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":928,"template":"","publication_category":[51],"publication_theme":[57,55,79,73],"class_list":["post-927","stories","type-stories","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","publication_category-publications","publication_theme-health","publication_theme-health-equity","publication_theme-healthcare-access","publication_theme-vaccines"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/stories"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_category?post=927"},{"taxonomy":"publication_theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_theme?post=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}