Mahasin Mujahid on the Struggle for Testing

July 6, 2020

Carlos Nelson, Executive Director of the Greater Auburn-Gresham Development Corporation, speaks during a press conference to provide an update to the latest efforts by the Racial Equity Rapid Response Team, Monday April 20, 2020.ISSI's Berkeley Center of Social Medicine faculty Mahasin Mujahid, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, was quoted in "Latino, Black neighborhoods struggle with test disparities," an AP article discussing the difficulty of getting a COVID-19 test in low-income communities of color. “It’s the perfect storm as this hits unlevel playing fields all across the U.S.,” she observes.