Category Archive: coronavirus

Dispatches from Fresno, 1918-19: Following the ‘Spanish’ Flu Pandemic in Real Time, Part XV

As Fresno entered the final week of 1918, the second wave of the influenza outbreak showed no signs of breaking.

Triggers and Vulnerabilities: Why California Prisons Are So Vulnerable to COVID-19, and What to Do About It

Good intentions and short-sighted thinking have turned prison reform in California into a COVID catastrophe, argues legal scholar Hadar Aviram.

Dispatches from Fresno, 1918-19: Following the ‘Spanish’ Flu Pandemic in Real Time, Part XIV

As a new wave of flu tore through Fresno, the debate over reopening turned into all-out war – with business and church interests ultimately winning out, at a steep cost to public health.

The Coronavirus Pandemic and the Contagion of Racism

The amplification of dangerous and persistent anti-Asian racism is a central part of our failed response to COVID-19.

Let’s Talk About Movies, Let’s Get a Bite to Eat

In a time of great pain and great courage, we miss those who we lost too soon, and everyone else too.

Dispatches from Fresno, 1918-19: Following the ‘Spanish’ Flu Pandemic in Real Time, Part XII

As students returned to school and theaters reopened, was a second wave of the deadly virus about to hit Fresno?

Dispatches from Fresno, 1918-19: Following the ‘Spanish’ Flu Pandemic in Real Time, Part XI

The pandemic wanes, the world begins to reopen — but in December 1918, was a second wave about to hit?

Dispatches from Fresno, 1918-19: Following the ‘Spanish’ Flu Pandemic in Real Time, Part X

Churches, flu masks, theatrical fare, and some hungry Fresnans. How does the crisis finally unwind?