How Covid Upended a Century of Patterns in U.S. DeathsThe pandemic brought a record uptick in deaths, interrupted a downward trend in death rates and spurred the highest death rate above normal ever recorded in the country.How Covid Upended a Century of Patterns in U.S. Deaths
The ‘Chinese Flu’ Is Part of a Long History of Racializing DiseaseDuring a plague outbreak in 1899, officials in Honolulu quarantined and burned the city’s Chinatown. Some Covid-19 talk today echoes their rhetoric.The ‘Chinese Flu’ Is Part of a Long History of Racializing Disease