Learning From COVID-19: System Blindness to Primary Care.

2021

Authors Newton, Warren P, Baxley, Elizabeth G, Magill, Michael K
Volume 19(3):282-284
Source Annals of Family Medicine

It has become common to observe that the COVID-19 pandemic has unmasked—again1—the inequities in health care that Black, Latino, and poor patients face in access to and delivery of care.2,3 Less commonly observed is the blindness to the potential for primary care to have played a major role in response to the pandemic. We believe that this blindness has cost lives and increased suffering in communities across the country.