YSPH in the Media - Selected Links

The Atlantic: Limiting the time and space available to protesters—and the rest of the public—puts everyone in more danger.

The Nation: Going to demonstrations isn’t risk-free, but we have a duty to resist.

GQ: "The fact that so many people have showed up despite COVID-19 is proof of how desperately we all want justice for George."

RLN: Open letter advocating for an anti-racist public health response to demonstrations against systemic injustice occurring during the COVID-19 pandemic

Without a vaccine or treatment, the world has been forced to adopt severe tactics to slow the spread of Covid-19: social distancing, shutdowns, closures, and cancellations. As states in the US begin to reopen, it’s clear there is still much hardship to come — for those laid off, for businesses forced to implement costly new health measures, for those still at risk of infection.

The coronavirus pandemic has magnified inequities in the health care system and outcomes for minorities, prompting one expert to rail against the “band-aid” that’s preserving a broken status-quo. As racially-tinged protests roil the U.S. — and the COVID-19 toll continues to mount, especially in communities of color — Dr. Howard Forman, a professor of public health and policy at Yale University told Yahoo Finance that officials need to "look at [the problem] more seriously."

Places that took longer to begin implementing social distancing measures spent more time with the coronavirus rapidly spreading than did others that acted more quickly, a new analysis of outbreaks in 58 cities shows.

Dr. Harvey Risch, an epidemiologist at Yale, disputes that hydroxychloroquine should be "widely available and promoted for prescription by physicians". In an article published by Oxford University Press, aided by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, he explains why it is essential that scientists shouldn't only "stand by" while knowing the drug's efficacy and potential.

Daily coronavirus updates: Chief medical examiner recorded twice as many deaths in May 2020 as in May 2019, mostly due to COVID-19; daily numbers continue promising trend ... outbreak peaked in Connecticut and the medical examiner recorded more than twice as many deaths as in previous years.