Killacky, “Lessons from the AIDS Pandemic,” Gay and Lesbian Review, April 8, 2020.
This insightful essay points to pertinent parallels between the AIDS pandemic and the Covid-19 pandemic now.
Covid-19: First Person Histories
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
Food Waste in the Agricultural Sector and the Threat of Famine
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
Laura Spinney, “Inequality doesn’t just make pandemics worse – it could cause them,” The Guardian, April 12, 2020.
“Historically, disease outbreaks have happened at a time of social inequality and discord.” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/12/inequality-pandemic-lockdown
Leatherby and Gelles, “How the Virus Transformed the Way Americans Spend Their Money,” The New York Times, April 11, 2020.
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
Read the “Red Dawn” Emails.
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.
Lipton, “The ‘Red Dawn’ Emails: 8 Key Exchanges on the Faltering Response to the Coronavirus,” New York Times, April 11, 2020.
“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.”
The End of Social Distancing or Losing More Lives?
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
Corona Virus Reveals How Systemic Violence “Hides” in America
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.
Scientists Identify 69 Drugs to Test Against Coronavirus (New York Times) and Source Paper
This is an article from the New York Times that shares the results of a study done at UCSF to find possible cellular targets for COVID-19 as well as drugs that are already approved on in clinical trials that could help. Carl Zimmer does a good job of accurately presenting the work from the paper … Read more