Abstract:This literature critical analysis reflects on the social, political, and historical background responsible for racial discrepancies in hospital mortality by COVID-19 among the Brazilian population. During the pandemic, the COVID-19 mortality among the Black population gained notoriety. Rather than an isolated fact, this finding has historical roots dating back to Brazil’s foundation and draws on structural racism, which reveals degrading living and health conditions experienced by the Black population before t… Show more
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