The visual politics of the pandemic. https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/trump-speaks-of-images-hes-never-seen-before-but-theyve-existed–we-just-refused-to-look/2020/04/09/89128fec-79c8-11ea-a130-df573469f094_story.html#comments-wrapper
California is not in the clear yet, but its experience so far suggests early action is crucial. https://www.vox.com/2020/4/7/21205890/coronavirus-covid-19-pandemic-new-york-california
This insightful essay points to pertinent parallels between the AIDS pandemic and the Covid-19 pandemic now.
This website collects first person narratives from the Covid-19 pandemic at the Weill Cornell Medical College. It is curated by Megan Wolff, who was a student in an earlier incarnation of HIST 384, and went on to earn her PhD in the history of public health. http://psych-history.weill.cornell.edu/his_res/covid-19.html
The sharp decline in demand for food, especially in the restaurant industry, has caused farms to destroy millions of pounds in fresh produce. The immense waste will have dire consequences for the agricultural sector. Additionally, farmers do not know how much to plant for the next harvest season due to the uncertainty in how long … Read more
“Historically, disease outbreaks have happened at a time of social inequality and discord.” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/12/inequality-pandemic-lockdown
This article highlights an analysis of information, gathered by Earnest Research, on credit and debit card purchases of approximately six million Americans in the US. Not surprisingly, travel and shopping on spending have plummeted, while spending on groceries, food delivery services, and certain kinds of entertainment have skyrocketed. Surprisingly, spending on healthcare has also mostly … Read more
Here are 80 pages of emails in which public health experts discuss the beginning of the pandemic and the failure of the Trump administration to respond to it.
“Experts inside and outside the government identified the threat early on and sought to raise alarms even as President Trump was moving slowly. Read some of what they had to say among themselves at critical moments.”
While we are all anxious to have everything back to “normal” when will it be safe to so? Restarting America will mean a spike in cases and deaths. When is the right time? Will our new normal ever be the same? This article from NYT Magazine asked a panel of five public health experts for … Read more
