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Disproportionality and COVID-19:
and why Public Education should follow this data.
My current “can’t sleep-write urgently-publish” has been about the pressing news of the significant disproportionality of whose lives are the most impacted by COVID-19. For my day job, my department has kept a curated list of press clippings where we try to capture all of the media published about the disproportionality and organize it by marginalized population. This curated list or database is getting long and I’m sure we have even missed a few clippings. (If you are interested in accessing it please message me, we will share it freely)
The data is clear- certain populations across our nation are being impacted by COVID-19 at much deeper rates. And I’m not just referring to getting COVID-19 or dying from COVID-19 although that is the first statistic and one of the most important aspects of this disproportionality. I’m talking about the whole gamut- the loss of a job, the closing of a business, the constant exposure from being an essential worker, the quality of healthcare, the loss of health care insurance, the application for small business loans and the deniability rates- everything that has emerged as a consequence of COVID-19 has had major ramifications across our social and economic structures and they are impacting our historically and continuously marginalized populations at much larger rates.
