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This year, the COVID-19 pandemic has altered neurological care in many ways. However, evidence indicates that people from marginalized ethnic and socioeconomic groups have been affected by these changes more than others, highlighting and amplifying existing health-care disparities. Key advances Black patients with acute ischaemic stroke and COVID-19 have faced higher morbidity and mortality than white, Asian or Latino patients.sup.2. Patients hospitalized with COVID-19 at non-academic medical centres had worse outcomes than those at academic medical centres; gaps in access to critical and specialty care might influence these disparities.sup.3. Black patients with acute ischaemic stroke were less likely than white patients to receive telestroke services during the pandemic; gaps in access to acute stroke care have also been observed among Latino patients.sup.5. Among patients with Parkinson disease, those with lower incomes have had worse access to health care during the pandemic than patients with higher incomes.sup.9.
Author(s): LaShyra Nolen [sup.1] , Nicte I. Mejia [sup.1] [sup.2] Author Affiliations: (1) Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA (2) Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA During 2020, the [...]