Learning From COVID-19: System Blindness to Primary Care.

It has become common to observe that the COVID-19 pandemic has unmasked—again1—the inequities in health care that Black, Latino, and poor patients face in access to and delivery of care.2,3 Less commonly observed is the blindness to the potential for primary care to have played a major role in response to the pandemic. We believe that this blindness has cost lives and increased suffering in communities across the country.