An essential medical device fails people of color. A clinic is suing to fix that

Patient after patient at the East Oakland clinic extended their fingers so that healthcare workers could clip on a pulse oximeter.

University of Michigan researchers examined records of thousands of hospitalized COVID patients and looked for instances of 'occult hypoxia' - a situation when a patient's pulse oximeter reads in the healthy range, but their actual blood oxygen levels are dangerously low.

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