The coronavirus pandemic exacerbated racial and class inequalities, and put a spotlight on a system that deems some lives essential and others expendable. Here's how we covered a pandemic that has claimed over 344 thousand lives in the U.S.
In March, @fastlerner and @lhfang exposed how a coronavirus treatment developed by Gilead Sciences was granted “rare disease” status, potentially limiting its affordability. Days later, Gilead asked the FDA to rescind the drug's special status. interc.pt/35200I2
Two weeks as a New York City nurse in the coronavirus pandemic:
“I just can’t help but think that being a collective force of primarily women — many immigrant, many women of color ... that our lives are somehow expendable.”
“I just can’t help but think that being a collective force of primarily women — many immigrant, many women of color ... that our lives are somehow expendable.”
In a Long Island warehouse, immigrants working long hours doing mailings for a multibillion-dollar financial services company amid the pandemic were warned to “show up for work" or lose their jobs. interc.pt/2WXtAu3
“The devil’s trying to give me the flu!”
What evangelical leaders told their congregations about Covid-19.
What evangelical leaders told their congregations about Covid-19.
Tiffany Mofield died on April 29 at the troubled Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women after begging to be let out of a locked shower, saying “she could not breathe,” a fellow incarcerated woman who witnessed her death told The Intercept. interc.pt/351M2Gb
A Danish study found that elevated levels of PFBA were more than twice as likely to result in a severe form of Covid-19.
Created by 3M, PFBA is one of a class of industrial compounds that has come to contaminate soil, water, and food around the world. interc.pt/3baOyOv
Created by 3M, PFBA is one of a class of industrial compounds that has come to contaminate soil, water, and food around the world. interc.pt/3baOyOv
The pandemic is expediting long-awaited reforms that advocates have pushed for decades, like the release of nonviolent offenders from prison, where disease easily spreads. interc.pt/3pwCHOy
While much of the world moved swiftly to secure crucial medical supplies used to treat coronavirus, the U.S. dithered, maintaining business as normal and allowing large shipments of American-made respirators and ventilators to be sold to foreign buyers. interc.pt/383cqSb
A federal jail in New York destroyed medical records as part of a deliberate effort to obscure the number of incarcerated people infected with the coronavirus, and to avoid providing them adequate care. interc.pt/3rHsrVB
“I had actually already dropped out from the online school that I was in — right now I'm actually working at FedEx, and, yeah, that's what I think about Covid.”
Remote learning looks radically different on opposite sides of the digital divide.
Remote learning looks radically different on opposite sides of the digital divide.
California Kaiser Permanente facilities downgraded coronavirus protective standards to shore up supplies, but said nurses couldn’t wear their own gear.
“They could be fired ‘on the spot’ for insubordination,” according to a flyer sent to union members. interc.pt/2MdoUxR
“They could be fired ‘on the spot’ for insubordination,” according to a flyer sent to union members. interc.pt/2MdoUxR
Pharmaceutical companies view the coronavirus pandemic as a once-in-a-lifetime business opportunity. interc.pt/2KIKMkB
New York City offered prisoners at Rikers Island $6 per hour and personal protective equipment if they agreed to help dig mass graves on Hart Island. interc.pt/383dS75
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