Reading Time: 2 minutes People of color are more likely to be working in “essential” jobs, and therefore are at much greater risk of exposure to COVID-19. Health inequities, seen in preexisting conditions such as hypertension, obesity, diabetes, asthma, lack of access to quality health care, and underemployment are all factors that increase COVID-19 complications in patients of color. Coronavirus kills, and structural racism is its accomplice.
April 2020
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3 Stories You Should Read 4/15/2020: Reopening, Wisconsin, Unemployment
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Explains Inequality in Coronavirus Pandemic | NowThis
by Confluenceby ConfluenceReading Time: < 1 minute In US news and current events today, Rep. Alexandria-Ocasio Cortez discussed with Ady Barkan how global pandemics and the current COVID-19 virus is highlighting all of the inequalities that the poor communities and vulnerable are subjected to. Here’s why AOC is fighting for radical change against systematic racism and inequality amongst the working class.
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BBC: Coronavirus: ‘World faces worst recession since Great Depression’
by Confluenceby ConfluenceReading Time: 4 minutes While longer lockdowns will constrain economic activity, the IMF said quarantines and social distancing measures were vital.
It said: “Upfront containment measures are essential to slow the spread of the virus and allow health care systems to cope and to help pave the way for an earlier and more robust resumption of economic activity.
“Uncertainty and reduced demand for services could be even worse in a scenario of greater spread without social distancing”
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Vox: This study on flower resilience is the most beautiful thing I’ve read during the pandemic
by Confluenceby ConfluenceReading Time: 10 minutes It’s not often I find the text of an academic article to be riveting and even beautiful. Here, I was hooked: “Virtually no research has addressed response to accidents involving flowers,” ecologists Scott Armbruster and Nathan Muchhala write. “Yet flowering stalks are often subject to accidental collapse, as when a scape blows down in the wind or coarse litter falls onto a stem …” Great Darwin’s ghost! This is a scientific oversight.
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3 Stories You Should Read 4/14/2020: Medical Abortion Texas, Trump, Migrant Children
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Vox: Why New York has 12 times as many coronavirus deaths as California
by Confluenceby ConfluenceReading Time: 10 minutes California, the nation’s most populous state, was among the first to report cases. The first possible case of community transmission in the US was reported in California on February 26; the state reported its first death on March 4. New York lagged by days, reporting its first community transmission case on March 3 and first death on March 14.
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3 Stories You Should Read 4/09/2020: Greta Bauer, Men and Coronavirus, Fauci
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Pope says coronavirus pandemic could be nature’s response to climate crisis
by Confluenceby ConfluenceReading Time: 3 minutes In an email interview published Wednesday in The Tablet and Commonwealth magazines, the pontiff said the outbreak offered an opportunity to slow down the rate of production and consumption and to learn to understand and contemplate the natural world.
“We did not respond to the partial catastrophes. Who now speaks of the fires in Australia, or remembers that 18 months ago a boat could cross the North Pole because the glaciers had all melted? Who speaks now of the floods?” the Pope said.