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Coronapod: The Inequality at the Heart of the Pandemic

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Ninety years ago, John Steinbeck wrote, “The migrants are needed, and they are hated.” The same...

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For more than a century, public health researchers have demonstrated how poverty and discrimination drive disease, and the coronavirus pandemic has only reinforced this.

In a Coronapod special, Nature senior reporter Amy Maxmen takes us with her through eight months of reporting in the San Joaquin Valley, a part of rural California where COVID's unequal toll has proven deadly.

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