The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted everyone differently based on their social identities and standing. While some have adjusted to working and schooling from home, others have had to risk infection to keep society functioning. Examination of COVID-19 data by social identities like class, gender, age, race, and medical history shows that minorities have been disproportionately affected. In the U.S., minorities' right to health is not being respected. The pandemic has caused tremendous loss of life globally and poses unprecedented threats to public health, food systems, and the workplace, with its devastating economic and social effects increasing poverty and hunger around the world.
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted everyone differently based on their social identities and standing. While some have adjusted to working and schooling from home, others have had to risk infection to keep society functioning. Examination of COVID-19 data by social identities like class, gender, age, race, and medical history shows that minorities have been disproportionately affected. In the U.S., minorities' right to health is not being respected. The pandemic has caused tremendous loss of life globally and poses unprecedented threats to public health, food systems, and the workplace, with its devastating economic and social effects increasing poverty and hunger around the world.
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted everyone differently based on their social identities and standing. While some have adjusted to working and schooling from home, others have had to risk infection to keep society functioning. Examination of COVID-19 data by social identities like class, gender, age, race, and medical history shows that minorities have been disproportionately affected. In the U.S., minorities' right to health is not being respected. The pandemic has caused tremendous loss of life globally and poses unprecedented threats to public health, food systems, and the workplace, with its devastating economic and social effects increasing poverty and hunger around the world.
The present COVID-19 epidemic has impacted all of us.
However, depending on our standing as
individuals and as members of society, the pandemic's impact and repercussions are perceived differently. While some people strive to adjust to working online, educating their children, and getting food through Instacart, others are forced to be infected in order to keep civilization running. Our many social identities and the social groupings to which we belong define our social inclusion and, as a result, our vulnerability to epidemics. COVID-19 is a virus that is killing a lot of people. COVID-19 have been detected in more than 7.7 million persons across the United States and its four territories as of October 10, 2020. According to the New York Times database, at least 213,876 individuals have died in the United States as a result of the virus. These worrying figures, however, only tell half the story; a detailed examination of data by different social identities (such as class, gender, age, color, and medical history) reveals that minorities have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic. In the United States, these minority' right to health is not being respected. The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a significant loss of human life throughout the world, and it poses an unprecedented threat to public health, food systems, and the workplace. The pandemic's economic and social effects are devastating: tens of millions of people are at risk of sliding into severe poverty, and the number of people who are undernourished, which is presently estimated to be around 690 million, might rise to 132 million by the end of the year.