The World Trade Organization’s most powerful members quashed a proposal to waive vaccine patents for poorer countries.
Despair and Disparity: The Uneven Burdens of COVID-19
Since COVID-19 hit the United States, it’s been at the top of every news outlet’s headlines. However, the disparate impact and deep injustices that the crisis has wrought often go unmentioned. So do the underlying oppressive systems that allowed the pandemic to reach the magnitude that it has. Truthout is taking on these injustices with a broad-ranging series, “Despair and Disparity: The Uneven Burdens of COVID-19,” which addresses how the pandemic intersects with issues of social, economic, environmental, racial, gender and disability justice. Through investigative reporting and dynamic analysis, we’ll paint a real picture of this pandemic’s implications — and sketch a bold new image of what a post-pandemic world could look like. In this series, journalists, activists, organizers and thinkers, many of whom have been brutally impacted by the crisis themselves, will share stories and insights that point the way toward a transformed future.
Standardized testing under pandemic conditions will only magnify the inequities the tests were designed to perpetuate.
The U.S., U.K., EU and Israel are hoarding vaccines. To beat COVID, we need true global cooperation instead.
Still, advocates say Biden must fundamentally change how agencies process unaccompanied kids on the border.
Exclusion from vaccine eligibility is emblematic of how farmworkers, many of them migrants, are treated in general.
Data shows that 54 percent of those who received their vaccines at a community health center were people of color.
Rhetoric about children “falling behind” shows a desire to maintain a broken status quo, not a desire for true equity.
We must push back against our state leaders as they abandon life-saving protections against COVID-19.
At the heart of today’s housing crisis is a capitalist economy built on shadowy finances and esoteric debt.
The demand for oxygen in Mexico has grown by 700 percent over the past month, and desperate people are being exploited.