Resources and Recommended Reading
As communities emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, pre-health students are encouraged to reference the following articles (published during the pandemic) to enhance their understanding of this specific public health crisis, and how that knowledge will inform their work as a future healthcare provider:
Recommended Reading & Viewing
- Death Doulas Used to be Rare. The COVID-19 Pandemic Changed That (Time)
- How a Medical Student-Run Clinic is Navigating the Pandemic (American Medical Association)
- Vaccine Access, Vaccine Hesitancy: Challenges to Herd Immunity (The Hastings Center webinar)
- Peggy McIntosh: How to Recognize Your White Privilege & Use It to Fight Inequality (TEDTalk)
- The US Medical System is Still Haunted by Slavery (vox video)
- Inequality Doesn't Just Make Pandemics Worse--It Could Cause Them (The Guardian)
- 9 Ways to Help Others During the Coronavirus Pandemic (Idealist)
- Official Counts Underestimate the U.S. Coronavirus Death Toll (The New York Times)
- Location Data Says It All: Staying at Home During Coronavirus is a Luxury (The New York Times)
- Keeping the Coronavirus From Infecting Healthcare Workers (The New Yorker)
- The Four Possible Timelines for Life Returning to Normal (The Atlantic)
- On the Front Lines of a Pandemic, 'I Love You' Can Mean 'Goodbye' (The New York Times)
- The Covid Drug Wars that Pitted Doctor vs. Doctor (The New York Times)