COVID-19 and Inequality in the United States today
Episode 6 - April 24, 2020
Credit: IDB
Michelle Smirnova, a sociologist (University of Missouri, Kansas City), joins Merle and Lee to discuss some of the present-day effects of COVID-19 in the US. They cover the differential effects of COVID-19 on disadvantaged populations in the US, the US health system and the administration’s stance towards infectious diseases, and touch upon some of the challenges involved in providing precise statistics.
Further Reading
- Michelle Smirnova
- Klinenberg, Eric. 2002. Heatwave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago.
- Roberts, Dorothy. 2011. Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business re-create race in the twenty first century. New York: The New Press.
- Reich, Jennifer A. 2016. Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines. New York: NYU Press.
Our Guest
Michelle Smirnova
Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Missouri, Kansas City.
