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Terrence Holt publishes in Literary Hub, With Pandemic Information Overload How Can We Tell What is Real? We know next to nothing. That’s how we feel. SARS-CoV-19, or “the novel coronavirus,” the pathogen responsible for this pandemic, is a strikingly unusual beast, capable of wreaking a bewildering variety of harms...

Can Pharmaceutical Testing Ever Be Ethical Under Capitalism? https://www.wunc.org/post/can-pharmaceutical-testing-ever-be-ethical-under-capitalism

After Denver jail COVID-19 cases spiked, officials scrambled to lower publicly reported counts. https://gazette.com/government/after-denver-jail-covid-19-cases-spike-officials-scrambled-to-lower-publicly-reported-counts/article_ab9b6568-cd40-11ea-8a6a-eb82648e3970.html

ICE transfers — and NC jail partnerships — have continued amid the pandemic https://www.northcarolinahealthnews.org/2020/07/24/six-nc-jails-entered-contracts-with-ice-amid-the-pandemic/

Dr. Krista Perreira, Professor of Social Medicine, recently published an article in the American Journal of Public Health on perceived access to abortion among women in the United States.  Perreira and her colleagues at the Urban Institute find that 27.6% of women aged 18-44 in U.S. households believed that access...

https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/12/california-institution-for-men-covid19-outbreak/

  https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/07/02/ethical-path-covid-19-vaccine/

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law JHPPL Call for Paper Proposals  Health Politics and Policy under COVID-19 The Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law (JHPPL) invites the submission of paper proposals for a special issue on health politics and policy under COVID-19. Sarah Gollust (University of Minnesota) and...

How The Coronavirus Is Disproportionately Impacting Black Americans. The coronavirus pandemic is hitting some communities much harder than others. We’ll take a look at the disproportionate toll it’s taking on African Americans. Giselle Corbie-Smith appears on NPR to discuss impact of COVID-19 on African Americans. https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2020/04/09/coronavirus-african-americans

Jill Fisher, Professor of Social Medicine, has published a new book, Adverse Events: Race, Inequality, and the Testing of New Pharmaceuticals (NYU Press). https://nyupress.org/9781479862160/adverse-events/ Explores the social inequality of clinical drug testing and its effects on scientific results. Imagine that you volunteer for the clinical trial of an experimental drug....