PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Corbie-Smith, Giselle AU - Wolfe, Mary K. AU - Hoover, Stephanie M. AU - Dave, Gaurav TI - Centering Equity and Community in the Recovery of the COVID-19 Pandemic AID - 10.18043/ncm.82.1.62 DP - 2021 Jan 01 TA - North Carolina Medical Journal PG - 62--67 VI - 82 IP - 1 4099 - http://www.ncmedicaljournal.com/content/82/1/62.short 4100 - http://www.ncmedicaljournal.com/content/82/1/62.full SO - N C Med J2021 Jan 01; 82 AB - The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed socioeconomic, geographic, and medical vulnerabilities in our country. In North Carolina, inequalities resulting from centuries of structural racism exacerbate disparate impacts of infection and death. We propose three opportunities that leaders in our state can embrace to move toward equity as we weather, and emerge from, this pandemic.