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01-07-2020 | COVID-19 | Notes From The Field
COVID-19 and Hidden Housing Vulnerabilities: Implications for Health Equity, New Haven, Connecticut
Authors:
Alana Rosenberg, Danya E. Keene, Penelope Schlesinger, Allison K. Groves, Kim M. Blankenship
Published in:
AIDS and Behavior
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Issue 7/2020
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Excerpt
COVID-19 has laid bare our connectedness, with early maps demonstrating its movement from person to person and community to community. But over time, the maps have revealed a darker truth, exposing vast inequality and shameful rifts within societies, exemplified in the case of the United States. One such dimension of inequality impacting the pandemic is housing. Our research on housing as a social determinant of HIV risk reveals understudied and neglected housing vulnerabilities that may impact COVID-19 risk. …