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Alemi, Q., Stempel, C., Siddiq, H., & Kim, E. (2020). Refugees and COVID-19: achieving a comprehensive public health response. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 98(8), 510–510A. https://doi.org/10.2471/BLT.20.271080

The authors discuss the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on millions of refugees worldwide. Topics mentioned include the social stigma associated with COVID-19, dependence of many refugees on insufficient cash assistance from humanitarian agencies, and the guiding principle of public health networks leaving no one behind during the COVID-19 pandemic according to the journal "The Lancet."

Berk, J., Macmadu, A., Kaplowitz, E., & Rich, J. (2020). Covid-19 Exposes a Broken Prison System. Issues in Science & Technology, 37(1), 30.

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed innumerable flaws in US society, including a failure to ensure equitable community health, systemic racism, and a broken system of punishment and incarceration.

Estroff Marano, H. (2020). The Healers Are Hurting: For Many of the Nation’s Physicians, Doctoring Has Become an Almost Unrecognizable Activity, and It Started Long Before the Covid-19 Crisis. It's Bad Enough That Patients Are Unhappy with the Care They Get. The Doctors Have No Idea How to Take Care of Themselves. Psychology Today, 53(3), 72.

The article discusses the burdens of patient care and self-care borne by physicians in the U.S. amid the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in 2020. Topics covered include doctors' additional administrative demands, overwork, emotional exhaustion and loss of a sense of purpose that all contribute to burnout, and their rising death rates via suicide. Also noted are physicians' general denial of distress and resistance to get help when they need it.

Ren Minghui, Simao, M., Mikkelsen, B., Kestel, D., Ball, A., & Szilagyi, Z. (2020). Gaps in access to essential medicines and health products for noncommunicable diseases and mental health conditions. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 98(9), 582–582A. https://doi.org/10.2471/BLT.20.272658

The authors discuss the gaps and issues to access of needed medicine and health products for mental health conditions and noncommunicable diseases around the world. Also cited are the need for governments to asses their policies on said illnesses and resolve the weaknesses revealed by the COVID-19 pandemic, and some proposals to increase access to medicine like drug affordability and fair pricing, and demand forecasting for medicine, vaccines, and diagnostics.

Sutton, W. (2020). What COVID-19 Took From This Black Community. National Geographic, 238(5), 36.

The article focuses on the U.S. the virus has been disproportionately deadly to African Americans in New Orleans that meant the loss of a family man, church usher, and youth mentor who has also a king of the Krewe of Zulu at Mardi Gras. Topics include Lillian Phillips realized Larry Hammond has different from other boys knew in their New Orleans high schools.

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