Reporting on the San Joaquin Valley Pandemic

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amy maxman has been reporting on the pandemic since its beginnings. In this podcast, i'm going to take you through some of the last eight months of my reporting in part of california called the san joaquin valley. This isn't a slick audio production it's just my journey, and it's one i won't soon forget.

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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