States Must Factor Race In COVID-19 Vaccine Prioritization By
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This analysis, published in December 2020, estimates that 6%-8% of all COVID-19 cases and 3%-4% of all COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. through July 21, 2020 were tied to meat and poultry plants. Workers in these facilities stand close together on processing lines, which makes social distancing difficult.
At the same time, companies like Tyson, which produces chicken, beef and pork, and JBS, which produces beef and pork, are reporting high earnings despite COVID-related challenges such as plant closures.
I am a law professor and have written about links between lax state and federal enforcement of health and safety laws and increased rates of COVID-19 infections and deaths. Thanks to punitive attendance rules and Trump administration policies, meat- and poultry-processing workers have been unnecessarily exposed to COVID-19. In my view, the best way to protect them is to reform laws that prior
With nearly one-third of Missourians eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine, some ethicists are reminding people that it's important that people wait until the most vulnerable get their shots first.
Nearly one-third of Missourians are now eligible to receive the coronavirus vaccine if they can find it. The confusion is prompting some to ethicists remind people that it's important that people wait until the most vulnerable get their shots first.
Advancing Racial Equality & Social Justice
Structural racism is killing us now what? Here are some policy recommendations
By Engy Abdelkader
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On Dec. 9 and 10, the ABA Section of Civil Rights and Social Justice Rights of Immigrants Committee hosted a two-day policy summit exploring some of the most pressing civil rights issues confronting our nation. In a strategic partnership with the German Marshall Fund, a public policy organization, the ABA began its exploration of interpersonal, institutional and structural discrimination with the virtual session titled Structural Racism Is Killing Us. Now What?
Against the backdrop of a global pandemic, our initial conversation focused on systemic racism the ways in which laws are used to give advantages to the majority population while creating disadvantages for racial, ethnic and religious minorities by limiting equal access to resources.