Darker Skinned COVID-19 Patients are Appearing Healthier Than They Actually Are Due to Inaccurate Oxygen Level Readings.

Black and Latino COVID-19 patients are having their oxygen levels misread by hospital pulse oximeters, resulting in delayed treatments and endangering their chances of survival

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The JAMA Network, a monthly open-access medical journal published by the American Medical Association, recently published troubling information about how pulse oximeters, the devices used to read oxygen levels, are producing inaccurate results for Black, Latino and Asian COVID-19 patients, putting them at a greater risk of s…