public health

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  12/2/2020
  

  Cicely was Young, Black and Enslaved – Her Death During an Epidemic in 1714 Has Lessons that Resonate in Today's Pandemic

  by Nicole S. Maskiell

  A gravestone marking the burial of Cicely, an enslaved teenage girl in Cambridge, Mass., points to gap between the importance of black women's labor to colonial society (especially in times of crisis like epidemics) and their remembrance in history.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  12/1/2020
  

  From Cholera To Seat Belts: History Of Americans Reacting To Public Health Messages

  Public Health historian David Rosner argues that strains of religiosity and individualism in American culture have made it difficult to win acceptance for many public health and safety measures in the past. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  12/1/2020
  

  The Struggle to Document COVID-19 for Future Generations

  by Pamela Ballinger

  Images of suffering have been powerful spurs to humanitarian action in history, but the process has the potential to reinforce messages of fault, blame, and separation. Assembling a visual archive of the age of COVID must avoid those traps to be useful in the future. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  

  History Reminds Us that Vaccines Alone Don't End Pandemics

  by E. Thomas Ewing

  Positive news about advances on a vaccine for the novel coronavirus should not be taken as a license to stop mask-wearing and social distancing argues a historian of viral pandemics. 

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• 11/15/2020
  

  Can the COVID Crisis Create a New Civilian-Military Trust in Argentina?

  by David M. K. Sheinin y Cesar R. Torres

  Many Argentinians have been suspicious of military involvement in civil affairs since the end of the country's military dictatorship in 1983. Two scholars ask if the COVID crisis presents an opportunity for healing and reimagining the military's role in Argentina.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/9/2020
  

  Trump Politicized COVID-19. Let’s Not Politicize The Vaccine.

  by Max Boot

  "If the Pfizer vaccine helps to free us from the threat of COVID-19, there will be plenty of credit to go around — and it won’t conform to narrow partisan categories. Reality is too messy for ideology."

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  11/5/2020
  

  The Pandemic Is Dragging On. Professors Are Burning Out.

  "For professors of all types, their responsibilities as teachers are causing many of them to feel pressed to meet the needs of the moment."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/31/2020
  

  Stanford Study Seeks to Quantify Infections Stemming From Trump Rallies

  Stanford researchers, led by Professor B. Douglas Bernheim, the chairman of the university’s economics department, conducted a regression analysis. They compared the 18 counties where Mr. Trump held rallies with as many as 200 counties with similar demographics and similar trajectories of confirmed COVID-19 cases before the rally date.

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• SOURCE: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
  10/18/2020
  

  Last Week Tonight: The World Health Organization

  The weekly comedy-investigative program includes an assessment of the World Health Organization's past work eradicating disease in the developing world and the Trump administration's attacks on the agency (includes some vulgar language and jokes).

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  10/21/2020
  

  The Forgotten Third Amendment Could Give Pandemic-Struck America a Way Forward

  by Alexander Zhang

  Could the Third Amendment's ban on quartering of troops in private homes be expanded to establish a right to protection against pandemics? The history of troop quartering shows objections to it were closely connected with fear of disease.

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  10/20/2020
  

  ‘It’s Negligence’: U. of Michigan Students Ordered to ‘Stay in Place’ After Covid-19 Cases Surge

  Washtenaw County health officials are confronting the administration of the University of Michigan over their planning process for reopening campus as local cases associated with the university surge. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/19/2020
  

  What Fans of "Herd Immunity" Don't Tell You

  by John M. Barry

  Prolonged isolation measures to fight COVID-19 do cause harm--social, emotional, and economic. But advocates of "herd immunity" are not offering a practical or safe plan to protect the vulnerable if the virus spreads on a mass scale. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/15/2020
  

  In Fights Over Face Masks, Echoes of the American Seatbelt Wars

  The fight over seatbelt laws in the United States was fraught with trying to strike a balance between individual and public interests. Those concerns have also been reflected in similar matters of health and safety, including vaccinations, helmet laws — and masks.

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• SOURCE: History.com
  10/5/2020
  

  Why African Americans Were More Likely to Die During the 1918 Flu Pandemic

  Black Americans in the 1918 flu pandemic were anomalously less likely to catch the flu, but died disproportionately from it because of segregated medicine.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/15/2020
  

  For 200 Years Courts Upheld Rules to Protect Americans’ Health. Until Now

  by John Fabian Witt

  "Now a new generation of judges, propelled by partisan energies, look to deprive states of the power to fight for the sick and dying in a pandemic in which the victims are disproportionately Black and brown."

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• 10/15/2020
  

  An Open Letter to Dr. Anthony Fauci

  by Martin Halpern

  A history professor who also has a background in public health research urges Dr. Anthony Fauci to resign so that he can freely speak out about the Trump administration's response to the COVID pandemic. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  10/12/2020
  

  Colleges Pledged to Follow the Science. But Divides in Reopening Plans Reflected State Politics

  Although the findings have not been peer reviewed, a working paper on college administrators' decisions to reopen campuses suggests that Republican state leadership was correlated with decisions to return students to campus this fall. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/8/2020
  

  The New England Journal of Medicine Avoided Politics for 208 Years. Now it’s Urging Voters to Oust Trump

  The administration's incompetent response to the COVID-19 pandemic spurred the otherwise non-political medical journal to endorse a vote against Donald Trump.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  10/4/2020
  

  Coronavirus Can Afflict the Powerful. Yet Food Workers Remain the Most Vulnerable.

  by Angela Stuesse

  The rollback of workplace protections under a generation of conservative state and federal administrations has made low-wage service workers acutely vulnerable to COVID. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  10/3/2020
  

  Notre Dame’s President Went Unmasked at White House, Then Tested Positive. Now He’s Under Fire

  Student Ashton Weber recently helped create a petition, signed by more than 200 undergraduates, calling for Jenkins to resign because of his repeated failures to follow the public-safety precautions expected of students.