Aem Special Issue On (In)Equity In Emergency Medicine

The year of 2020 was a momentous one for the United States. A confluence of purposely-designed systems' outcomes and deep histories of schism converged with a viral mutation to force the topic of (in)justice to re-enter mainstream conversation. Not since the Civil Rights Movement has the matter of (in)equity been in the homes of so many U.S. families and the (virtual) offices of so many workplaces. The disproportionate deaths of Indigenous, Black, Asian, and Latinx peoples in relation to Whites is long-known in communities of color and is well documented in public health.