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COVID-19 Rates Seen As Higher Among Minority & Disadvantaged Kids
Pediatrics.COVID-19, an infection caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 that emerged in late 2019, has infected more than 4.5 million Americans, including tens of thousands of children. Early in the pandemic, researchers discovered significant disparities in the rates of infection in the U.S., with minorities and socioeconomically disadvantaged adults bearing much higher burdens of infection.However, Monika Goyal, M.D., M.S.C.E, a pediatric emergency medicine specialist and associate division chief in the Division of Emergency Medicine at Children’s National, said it was still unknown whether these disproportionate rates of infection are reflected in children and young people.To explore this question, Goyal — whose research focuses on