• How one reporter covered the removal of race from common algorithms 

    In 2020, an NEJM publication highlighted the widespread misuse of race as a proxy for discrimination and genetic ancestry in medical algorithms. That publication and growing social awareness of the harms of racism re-invigorated long-simmering efforts to fix biases caused by the misuse of race.  Since then, researchers and clinicians have worked to update old…

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