Public Health Researchers Have Had the Hardest Time Last Year

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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.

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

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