Why Is the San Joaquin Valley So Bad?

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The sanoaquin valley is like an agricultural heartland. There's also a lot of meat king plants there and food processing plants. The majority of the people who work on the farms or in the plants are immigrants. And most of those immigrants are latino or latina. It could have been me sitting at my breakfast table eating fosole.

For more than a century, public health researchers have demonstrated how poverty and discrimination drive disease and the coronavirus pandemic has only reinforced this.

In a Coronapod special, Nature reporter Amy Maxmen takes us with her through eight months of reporting in the San Joaquin valley, a part of rural California where COVID's unequal toll has proven deadly.

News: Inequality's deadly toll

This piece was supported by grants from the Pulitzer Center and the MIT Knight Science Journalism fellowship.

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