Archiving the Pandemic
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Inequality Intensifies the Coronavirus Crisis in Detroit
Benjamin Wallace-Wells
The New Yorker
Overview
In this article, Benjamin Wallace-Wells addresses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Detroit's most impoverished African American communities. Throughout the article lies a pertinent reflection on how the inequalities that structure North American society are at the origin of distinct impacts and progression of the pandemic. To this end, it highlights the most vulnerable groups in the African-American community, for whom economic difficulties reflect in higher rates of obesity, hypertension and diabetes that exacerbate the effects of the disease. And, on the other hand, it shows how the very weaknesses of health systems reproduce and intensify existing vulnerabilities.
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