id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-326744-eled2tgo Millett, Gregorio A. White Counties Stand Apart: The Primacy of Residential Segregation in COVID-19 and HIV Diagnoses 2020-10-01 .txt text/plain 3228 178 54 28 Attributing racial disparities to underlying conditions implicitly blames communities of color for COVID-19 disparities due to poor health decisions; but there is ample literature showing how social determinants contribute to worse health outcomes in communities of color, 29 including well-cited HIV research studies of youth, gay men, and PWID, which show that HIV disparities persist in black communities despite similar or fewer behavioral risks than whites. A CDC demonstration project that scaled up HIV testing efforts in black and Latino communities in the District of Columbia dramatically reduced the proportion of concurrent AIDS diagnoses at first positive test; 46 and encouraging data from a recent study 35 show shifts in COVID-19 testing from wealthier and white neighborhoods to poorer and more diverse neighborhoods in cities initially hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. ./cache/cord-326744-eled2tgo.txt ./txt/cord-326744-eled2tgo.txt