How Did They Tell You?

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Hardeep's mother tested positive for cronovirus at foster farm. She didn't have symptoms, but she gets them later on. He doesn't want her to go into work because the c d c recommends staying home ten days after that day. Hardeep is really worried about his mam. And a couple of weeks later, those fears turn out be true.

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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