https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8290203/Mystery-coronavirus-researcher-37-verge-significant-findings-killed-murder-suicide.html Bing Liu, a 37 year old researcher at the University of Pittsburgh, was shot to death in his home. The article states he was on the verge of major coronavirus findings. The reasons for the shooting are unclear, but the article seems to implicate another man who was found dead outside later.
Dr. Jarvis T. Chen and Dr. Nancy Krieger of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health have recently published a paper, “Revealing the unequal burden of COVID-19 by income, race/ethnicity, and household crowding: US county vs. ZIP code analyses,” in which they examine COVID-19 disparities through an analysis of factors such as income, race/ethnicity, … Read more
“While almost three in four white voters said they did not know someone who died of the virus, 48 percent of black voters, and 52 percent of Latino voters, said they did.”
The Washington Post recently published an article about how two black men wearing masks were followed throughout the store by a police officer at a Walmart in Wood River, Illinois. The article includes a link to the YouTube video in which the two men are seen walking throughout the store as a police officer follows … Read more
https://www.newsweek.com/rikers-island-covid-19-new-york-city-1496872 Rikers Island now has a confirmed infection rate of 6.6% which is over seven times that of NYC and nine times that of New York State. Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio have begun releasing inmates slowly; however, many call the release rate insufficient and unjust as many inmates, over 100, are particularly susceptible … Read more
This insightful essay points to pertinent parallels between the AIDS pandemic and the Covid-19 pandemic now.
“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 particular article shares important data that hides behind our broad view of the impacts COVID-19. While few counties in the United State report their case fatality rate by race, the data shows reveals startling statistics about how majority black areas are disproportionately affected.
This article highlights the fact that black and Latino people are twice as likely to die from coronavirus than white people in NYC, based on data released this past week by the NYC DOH. One possible explanation for this, according to the article, is that 75% of “front-line workers” are minorities in addition to general … Read more
