Black doctors losing offices could worsen COVID disparities

COVID-19 is generating concerns about the long-term impact on health disparities in minority communities and fear that Black-owned physician’s offices will be among the 41% of Black-owned businesses that may not survive the pandemic.

Here, two Rutgers New Jersey Medical School experts—associate professor Natalie E. Roche and assistant professor Damali Campbell-Oparaji, president of the New Jersey Medical Association (NJMA)—discuss how this could affect primary care access in minority communities and what effect the pandemic is having in those communities:

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