Community Engagement Alliance (CEAL): A National Institutes of Health Program to Advance Health Equity

摘要: The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and its related disease (COVID-19) constitute the greatest global public health crisis in more than a century. As of October 2023, there have been more than 771 million confirmed cases of COVID-19, resulting in more than 6.9 million deaths, despite the 13.5 billion vaccine doses administered worldwide. 1 In the United States alone, confirmed cases of COVID-19 have exceeded 103 million and caused more than 1.1 million deaths. 2 The health impact of the pandemic has been most disproportionate in underserved racial and ethnic minority communities. For example, at the start of the pandemic, COVID-19–related hospitalization rates were nearly four times higher in Hispanic/Latino and non-Hispanic Black/African American communities and death rates were three times higher in American Indian/Alaska Native communities compared with the …