The “Great Equalizer?” Interrogating COVID-19’s Racial Filter

May. 18

6:00–7:30 pm
Zoom web conference

The rapid and expansive spread of COVID-19 throughout the United States led many prominent observers to dub the virus "the great equalizer." But these pronouncements were quickly called into question with the emergence of data on race and ethnicity of victims, which laid bare the disproportionate impact of the pandemic's devastation on Black Americans. This panel features early research findings of UChicago scholars exploring these racial disparities and their roots in entrenched structural racism.