Nature Podcast

Coronapod special: The inequality at the heart of the pandemic

Apr 30, 2021

26:47

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Public Health Research

01:33

Public Health Research

02:27

The Essential Worker

02:04

Introduction

2min

Reporting on the San Joaquin Valley Pandemic

2min

Why Is the San Joaquin Valley So Bad?

2min

We're All Batting Something at This Moment

2min

The Essential Worker

2min

What Are the Signs of a Pendemic?

2min

How Did They Tell You?

3min

The Board of Supervisors of Fresno County's Pendemic Response

2min

Community Organizations Demanding Action in Fresno

4min

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Public Health Research

2min

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Public Health Research

2min

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Public Health Researchers Have Had the Hardest Time Last Year

3min

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The Hartysing Story on Foster Farms, the Chicken Packing Plant

49sec

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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