How Long COVID Is Forcing a Reckoning with the Neglect of Post-Infectious Chronic Illnesses
COVID Long Haulers and patient advocates for the chronically ill are forcing an unprecedented recognition for these chronic complex diseases.
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Read more: The Politics of CDC Public Health Guidance During COVID-19 The Politics of CDC Public Health Guidance During COVID-19
In recent months, public health guidance from the CDC has become a site of political reckoning.
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Read more: COVID-19 Highlights the Vital Connection Between Food and Health COVID-19 Highlights the Vital Connection Between Food and Health
Together, food insecurity and COVID-19 have proven to be a deadly combination for Black and Brown people.
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Read more: Overworked, Overlooked, and Unprotected: Domestic Workers and COVID-19 Overworked, Overlooked, and Unprotected: Domestic Workers and COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected domestic workers, such as home health care workers, house cleaners, and child care workers.
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Read more: COVID-19 Immunity as Passport to Work Will Increase Economic Inequality COVID-19 Immunity as Passport to Work Will Increase Economic Inequality
A focus on immunity as a yardstick for return to work will only serve to widen the gulf of economic inequality in the U.S.
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Read more: Unequal Representation: Race, Sex, and Trust in Medicine — COVID-19 and Beyond Unequal Representation: Race, Sex, and Trust in Medicine — COVID-19 and Beyond
The COVID-19 pandemic has given renewed importance and urgency to the need for racial and gender diversity in clinical trials.
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Read more: Why Buck v. Bell Still Matters Why Buck v. Bell Still Matters
In just three sentences, Justice Holmes delivers a message that has lasted through today: some lives matter more than others.
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Read more: Expendable Lives and COVID-19 Expendable Lives and COVID-19
Medical neocolonialism does not exist in a vacuum. It is tied to the presumed expendability of Black life.
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Read more: The Two Pandemics Facing Asian Americans: COVID-19 and Xenophobia The Two Pandemics Facing Asian Americans: COVID-19 and Xenophobia
During the COVID-19 pandemic, instead of trying to extinguish racist attitudes, the Trump administration has spearheaded ways to “other” Asian Americans.
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Read more: Racial Inclusivity in COVID-19 Vaccine Trials Racial Inclusivity in COVID-19 Vaccine Trials
African Americans know, perhaps the most, what it means to be the first to be heavily recruited yet neglected by biomedicine.
