2021 -- and, yes, we will still be talking, thinking and living with CoVOD-19, now with hopes of the vaccine helping us to sustain community life. Still, we need to uphold much we have learned -- small steps such as wearing a mask and social distancing make for big changes.
This episode talks about the ways that people, even healthcare professionals tend to believe that Black communities are immune to COVID-19. This is due to the lack of available data on COVID-19 and race and ethnicity. This episode also includes an interview with my friend Kaitlyn Braithwaite, a junior and Hobart and William Smith Colleges majoring in Writing and Rhetoric and minoring in Women’s Studies. She talks all about her experiences living in Brooklyn during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and her experiences with disparities in access to testing, the role of self-medication in West Indian communities, and even losing a family member to COVID-19.
Special thanks to Kaitlyn for this contribution and also to Andrew Smith from HWS IT Services for help in creating and editing this podcast.Sources:
Laurencin, Cato T., and Aneesah McClinton. 2020. “The COVID-19 Pandemic: A Call to Action to Identify and Address Racial and Ethnic Disparities.” Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities7 (3): 398–402.https://doi.org/10.1007/s40615-020-00756-0.
