Newsweek Is Wrong About ‘Racially Concordant Care’
In 2020, a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) made waves in reporting that black newborns were more likely to survive when under the care of black physicians. In a report published by Do No Harm, we speculated that the correlation was spurious. Analysis from economists George Borjas and Robert VerBruggen confirmed our suspicions, and author correspondence retrieved through public-records request suggests that the study conclusion may not have been an oversight but an effort to preserve preferred narratives.
