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Posted: 4/22/2023 1:22:12 AM EDT
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More than a century later, the SARS-CoV-2 virus tore through the fissures of American society just as brutally as the fire tore through that building in Lower Manhattan. Once the virus breached biosafety systems that had been lauded as impenetrable, it encountered decrepit social infrastructure. It found "essential workers" laboring in meatpacking plants, shipping facilities, and grocery stores. It followed them home to multigenerational households in disproportionately Black and brown communities. Those low-paid workers made up most of the deaths among working-age Americans in the first year of Covid-19. The pandemic also ripped through neglected nursing homes, whose medically fragile residents accounted for up to 80 percent of total deaths in some states in 2020. It engulfed prisons in devastating outbreaks that functioned as "epidemic engines," sending the virus on into neighboring communities. The US government declared the Covid-19 pandemic officially over on April 10 terminating the national public health emergency. But experts predict the likelihood of a similar pandemic occurring in a given person's lifetime at 38 percent and suggest that this already high probability "may double in coming decades." Yet, unlike the policy response to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in 1911, our preparation for future pandemics remains largely focused on the spark infectious pathogens and not on the combustible social conditions that have made Covid-19 so devastating in the United States. moar |
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