COVID-19

In India’s COVID-19 Crisis, Social Media Does What Government Won’t

an Indian woman wearing a hijab leans her head back as a swab is stuck in her nostril
by Agnee Ghosh
May 19, 2021 at 12:18pm
Social media has emerged as a COVID-19 helpline full of flood of requests for ICU beds, oxygen, and antiviral drugs like Remdesivir.
Blue gloved hand holding vial of Covid-19 vaccine

There Will Be No Herd Immunity without Vaccine Equity

by s.e. smith
April 29, 2021 at 12:38pm
The stakes of the vaccine rollout have been huge for the disabled community. Read more »
a pregnant Indonesian woman poses in profile in a rice hat and bright blue shirt

Can Pregnant People Take the COVID Vaccine? Nobody Knows.

by Devon Haynie
December 23, 2020 at 2:32pm
Pregnant women are simply presumed to be unfit for trials, when in fact, they should be presumed to be integral. Read more »
an Asian woman with shoulder-length blond hair is wearing a black mask across her face as she stares into space

Our Healthcare System Is Completely Unprepared for Long COVID

by Naseem Jamnia
November 19, 2020 at 10:54am
How will our healthcare system accommodate an influx of post-viral symptoms weeks, months, and even years after the pandemic is under control? Read more »
a young couple holding coffee cups sit together in the airport while wearing N95 masks

Ill Will: The Problem With Individualizing COVID Risk

by Rebecca Epstein-Levi
November 18, 2020 at 11:58am
Messaging that’s exclusively about individual risk management is neither accidental nor inevitable. Read more »
an illustration of two people, one brown-skinned and one dark-skinned, kiss in front of a yellow background as they both wear masks

Love No Limit: The Messiness of Pandemic Sex

by Josie Pickens
September 29, 2020 at 1:06pm
Sex, even with those you are quarantining with, carries some risk of exposure. Read more »
A Black woman with long, black, curly hair, stands on a college campus in a mask, touting books in her arms

Colleges Are Fumbling Their Response to Coronavirus—Again

by Brooke Knisley
September 15, 2020 at 9:53am
It didn’t have to be this way, but this is what happens when colleges are more concerned with sports, the money they get from dormitories, or the ability to charge facility fees than they are with the health of their students and their professors.  Read more »
a colorful, fragmented painting of a Black woman in cornrows

No New Normal: Who Will We Be After This Nightmare Is Over?

by Kim Kelly
August 24, 2020 at 9:02am
If we want to survive, we’re going to have to save ourselves. Read more »
a Black woman wearing workout clothes, a black shirt and shorts, stands in a forest with her hands on her hips

The Twisted Racial Politics of Going Outside

by s.e. smith
August 17, 2020 at 9:00am
The belief that Certain People are ruining the outdoors has been a prevalent idea for a very long time, especially among white people. Read more »
two white men sit on a boardwalk in California, in front of a row of U.S. flags, without masks on

Suspicious Minds: The Conspiracy Theories That Shaped America’s Paranoid Politics

by Trimble
August 13, 2020 at 10:11am
Conspiracy theories offer a coherent plot that seems to stabilize a world in flux. Read more »
A woman crosses the street in a polluted area

World on Fire: Environmental Racism and COVID-19 Are a Deadly Combination

by Izzie Ramirez
August 4, 2020 at 10:00am
Ultimately, the only cure for environmental racism is to entirely dismantle the structures that allow it to fester. Read more »

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