The Cook County Jail in Chicago has now become the largest known source of COVID-19 infections in the U.S. according to an article by the New York Times. As of last week, the Cook County Sheriff’s Office has identified 238 inmates and 115 staff members who had tested positive for the virus, though this an … 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
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/at-va-facility-where-virus-kills-40-doctor-blames-societys-willing-to-warehouse-elders/2020/04/10/afd329d4-7b85-11ea-a130-df573469f094_story.html
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/07/828827346/louisiana-sen-cassidy-addresses-racial-disparities-in-coronavirus-deaths The senator does not take into account how poverty and systematic oppression affects health. Instead, he blames genetics for racial disparities and high rates of infection and deaths amongst black communities.
The coronavirus and social distancing policies are adversely affecting sex workers’ ability to make a living. Here is a personal account of an in-person sex worker based in London and an article on the conditions of foreign sex workers in Germany.
The New York Times recently published an article about how during the current pandemic socioeconomic disparities among college students have been amplified. The article shares the stories of two students at Haverford College who are both on the women’s lacrosse team and are teaching assistants for the same seminar course. While both students have similar … Read more
Charles M. Blow published an op-ed in The New York Times in which he discusses how, although many people believe otherwise, the coronavirus is not an equal-opportunity killer and that the ability to practice social distancing is a privilege that many of the poorest Americans do not have. Moreover, there are racial disparities in social … Read more
The New York Times published an article today that discusses the areas that have been most affected by COVID-19 in New York City. The article includes a map that looks at COVID-19 cases by zip code, which shows how low-income communities have been hit the hardest, particularly in the South Bronx and Western Queens. Link … Read more
The New York Times article titled “Waiving Rent and Making Masks, Afghans Meet Coronavirus With Kindness” discusses the global COVID-19 pandemic from the Afghan perspective. The Afghan perspective is unique because the government is reallocating its national resources from fighting an insurgency to combatting the Coronavirus. Interestingly, part of their response consists of dispelling the … Read more
The Human Rights Watch, a non-profit organization based in New York, recently published an article entitled “A Deadly Lack of Affordable COVID-19 Treatment in the US” which addresses how costly and inaccessible it is, particularly for low-income people, to receive testing and treatment for COVID-19. One uninsured woman in Boston reported that her COVID-19 testing … Read more
