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Structural Racism in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Moving Forward, an American Journal of Bioethics article with a series of commentaries, by Maya Sabatello et al. March 2021
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The COVID Racial Data Tracker from The Atlantic’s COVID Tracking Project, updated regularly
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What Young, Healthy People Have to Fear From COVID-19, by Atlantic staff writer Derek Thompson, explains that COVID-19 is not quite benign for younger people and why seeking to establish herd immunity is an inappropriate strategy to combat it, September 6, 2020
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In Why Some People Get Terribly Sick from COVID-19 science journalist Claudia Wallace analyzes some findings about variation in the severity of COVID-19, Scientific American, August 20, 2020
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A Conversation about the Ethical Concerns of People with Disabilities, with Mary Crossley, Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh, part of the Pandemic Policies & Practices series co-sponsored by the Mid-Atlantic Regional Public Health Training Center and the Center for Bioethics & Health Law, June 9, 2020
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Science Friday produced a ~35 minute podcast The Many Ways COVID-19 Exacerbates Pre-existing Inequality. Among the resources it recommends are these:
- COVID-19 exacerbating inequalities in the US, The Lancet, April 18, 2020
- 'A Terrible Price': The Deadly Racial Disparities of Covid-19 in America, by L. Kasimu Harris for The New York Times, detailing how African Americans have been affected by the pandemic, April 29, 2020
- African Americans Bear the Brunt of Covid-19's Economic Impact, The Guardian, April 28, 2020
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In How Racism Is Shaping the Coronavirus Pandemic, Evelynn Hammonds, Chair of Harvard’s Department of History of Science, is interviewed by Isaac Chotiner for The New Yorker, May 7, 2020
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The Catholic Health Association of the United States has collected articles reporting on COVID-19 and health disparities
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African Americans are disproportionately represented among those infected and among those dying:
- Early Data Shows African Americans Have Contracted, Died of Coronavirus at an Alarming Rate, ProPublica, April 2, 2020
- What COVID-19 Means for the American South, NPR’s The Takeaway, April 6 (minutes 2:00-37:30)—at minute 2:00, the report begins by relating COVID-19 to chronic health conditions and lack of health insurance, with comments from New Orleans which has the highest COVID-19 death rate and Mississippi which lacked Medicaid expansion ; at minute 21:10, the report shifts to the prevention of bias in the allocation of scarce healthcare resources, with commentary from Doug White, UPMC Endowed Chair for Ethics in Critical Care Medicine and co-author of the University of Pittsburgh’s: Allocation of Scarce Critical Care Resources During a Public Health Emergency
- COVID-19: Detroit's Black Community is Disproportionately Falling Ill and Dying, The Takeaway, April 7, 2020 (minutes 1:00 – 20:30)—from Detroit, Michigan, one of the few states tracking the racial breakdown of COVID-19 infection, this report connects difficulty preventing the spread of COVID-19 with economic and infrastructure issues, as well as long-standing social and racial inequities
- Coronavirus Is Devastating Communities Of Color, Exposing Underlying Health Inequities, Here and Now, April 7, 2020—ProPublica reports on the racial pattern of COVID-19 repeating in Milwaukee, Detroit, New Orleans, and New York’s largely low-income black and Latino neighborhoods
- Albany, Georgia, is an Unlikely Hotspot for COVID-19, The Takeaway, March 31, 2020 (minutes 1:06 – 13:58)—examining COVID-19 in one of Georgia’s most impoverished small towns
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Rural communities face particular challenges during the pandemic:
- A Conversation about Creating Fair Opportunity for Rural Americans, with Valerie B. Satkoske, part of the Pandemic Policies & Practices series co-sponsored by the Mid-Atlantic Regional Public Health Training Center and the Center for Bioethics & Health Law, August 18, 2020
- Rural America is more vulnerable to COVID-19 than cities are, and it’s starting to show, by David Peters at Iowa State University, in The Conversation series about the pandemic, June 18, 2020
- On The Brink, Rural Hospitals Brace For New Surge In COVID-19 Cases is a July 3, 2020 NPR report
- As Coronavirus Slams Houston Hospitals, It’s Like New York ‘All Over Again’, a New York Times report detailing similarities and differences in the current pandemic response, July 4, 2020
- Case Study: Managing COVID-19 in a Rural Community: St. James Parish Hospital, Lutcher, Louisiana—Details how St. James Parish Hospital in Lutcher, Louisiana, worked with local government community partners to prepare for COVID-19
- COVID-19 And The Financial Viability Of US Rural Hospitals—Examines the financial pressures on rural hospitals and how the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting hospital finances and identifies potential policy options to help rural hospitals and maintain rural healthcare access
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Coronavirus Exposes Public Health Inequities in Indigenous Communities, The Takeaway, April 2, 2020 (minutes 1:04 – 13:20)—a report about challenges of COVID-19 facing indigenous people living in both urban and reservation locations
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COVID-19: a potential public health problem for homeless populations
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Pennsylvania Prison Society supports a COVID-19 resources page related to those incarcerated, which includes an interactive map tracking the spread and mitigation of COVID-19 in Pennsylvania prisons and jails
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Flattening the Curve for Incarcerated Populations — Covid-19 in Jails and Prisons—elaborating arguments supporting measures to protect incarcerated and nonincarcerated communities— NEJM, April 2, 2020
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Older adults are at increased risk:
- Why Covid-19 is so dangerous for older adults, a basic explanation from Vox, March 13, 2020
- Clinical research paper suggesting that older age, higher D-Dimer and higher SOFA score are correlated with higher mortality in COVID19 patients: Clinical course and risk factors for mortality of adult inpatients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China: a retrospective cohort study
- While older patients with COVID-19 are the most likely to be hospitalized, to be admitted to ICU, and to die of COVID-19, 20% of US COVID-19 Deaths Were Aged 20-64, as reported March 19, 2020, in Medscape
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Pregnant women face particular health- and healthcare-related concerns during the pandemic:
- The Birth of Injustice: COVID-19 Hospital Infection Control Policy on Latinx Birth Experience by Pitt faculty member Marielle Gross and Alexandra Norton in AJOB, February 2021
- A Conversation about Ethical Challenges for Evidence-Based Obstetrics during COVID-19, with Marielle Gross, MD, MBE, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Services University of Pittsburgh, part of the Pandemic Policies & Practices series co-sponsored by the Mid-Atlantic Regional Public Health Training Center and the Center for Bioethics & Health Law, July 21, 2020
- The Legal and Medical Necessity of Abortion Care Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic, by Center faculty members Greer Donley and Sonya Borrero, with Beatrice Chen, argues that no public health interest is served by classifying abortion as nonessential healthcare, April 2020
- COVID-19 amplifies racial disparities in maternal health, May 14, 2020
- COVID-19 Is No Reason to Abandon Pregnant People, a Scientific American blog criticizing early policies barring spouses and doulas during labor and delivery, March 26, 2020
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