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As the U.S. death toll from the coronavirus tops 465,000, we speak with two disability rights activists about growing calls to prioritize giving COVID vaccines to people with physical and mental disabilities. Some states, including California, are failing to prioritize vaccines for people with serious physical or developmental disabilities, even though studies show they are up to three times more likely to die from COVID-19. “I use a ventilator to breathe, and I have respiratory failure,” says disabled activist Alice Wong, founder of the Disability Visibility Project and host of the podcast “Disability Visibility.” “If I get the virus, I will not survive. That is a certainty.” We also speak with Rabbi Elliot Kukla, a disability activist who offers spiritual care to those who are ill, dying or bereaved at the Bay Area Jewish Healing Center in San Francisco. “Since the beginning of this pandemic, it�
A Jan. 20 article published by the media watch group FAIR finds that ableist perspectives on disability in the pandemic have been elevated by the media, while disabled voices have largely been sidelined. Many people aren’t very bothered by the deaths of people like me, but this callousness is contrary to their own self-interest. Anyone could become disabled in the split second it takes for a tire to blow out on the freeway, or to inhale a microbe. The extreme fatigue, debilitating headaches, confusion and memory loss of long-haul Covid-19 sound remarkably like the symptoms of my chronic neurological illness. Furthermore, the virus does not recognize boundaries of the body; Covid-19’s blaze through vulnerable populations has sparked outbreaks across the country, infecting people across all demographics.