COVID-19 disproportionately impacts Black and Indigenous people, people of color, immigrants, and low-income, LGBTQ, and incarcerated people and communities – communities already facing circumstances that make COVID-19 infections deadly, including limited access to health care and paid sick leave, mass incarceration, and higher rates of underlying conditions such as diabetes, heart disease and respiratory illnesses.
The Center for Urban and Racial Equity’s (CURE) COVID-19 Equitable Response Community Commons Hub, formed in solidarity with social justice and health equity movements, has 20 categories of resources that can you can use to help ensure that vulnerable communities receive necessary health care, services and resources during the pandemic.
