How to Fix Racial Inequities in the U.S. Health System

Three experts discuss why health care needs a paradigm shift — and how to get there

A health care worker gives a Covid test to a patient in the Covid-19 Unit at United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, Texas, July 2, 2020. Photo: Mark Felix/AFP/Getty Images

Covid-19 has illuminated the stark racial inequities that exist in the United States’ health care system. The risk of dying from the novel coronavirus is up to nine and eight times higher for young Black and Latinx Americans…