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Public Health Government

The Real Cost Of A COVID Test? It Depends.

January 3, 2022January 3, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments abbott binax, abbott rapid test, city of detroit, cobo center, coronavirus, covid, covid-19, COVID19, detroit documenters, kayleigh lickliter, mike duggan, nCoV19, omicron, outlier media, pcr, pcr test, polymerase chain reaction, public health, rapid pcr test, rapid test, rapid testing, tcf center, test, test site, test sites

In a city whose government has aggressively and continually underfunded public transit, human services, and infrastructure, it can sometimes prove

“It Is What It Is”: With Omicron Rampant, Will Trump Country Notice?

December 30, 2021December 30, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments 5g chips, anti-vax, anti-vaxxers, baby-eating democrats, coronavirus, covid, COVID19, Donald Trump, friedman unit, greg gianforte, is there lizard DNA in the vaccine, lizard DNA, macomb county, omicron, omicron variant, pandemic, qanon, rural, rural healthcare, rural hospitals, rural icu beds, sean hannity, trump, trump voters, tucker carlson

The novel coronavirus hit cities hard at the beginning of the pandemic. But in 2021, it is disproportionately killing rural Americans– closely along party lines. Will the rapid spread of the novel omicron variant make this trend even worse?

Public Health Public Safety Transit infrastructure

Lethal Projectiles: Car Culture, Gun Violence, and Police Shootings

April 19, 2021April 19, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments adam toledo, black lives matter, BLM, brian calley, brooklyn center, chicago, city government, department of transportation, detroit police, detroit police chief james craig, detroit will breathe, diane cross, gun violence in chicago, james craig, jeff cranson, lane miles, level-of-service, LoS, mdot, michigan department of transportation, municipal government, officer-involved shooting, police abolition, police abolition movement, police brutality, police brutality lawsuits, police reform, police shooting, police shootings, public health, public police, traffic violence, violence, what about chicago, what about gun violence in chicago

Matthew Lewis points out that departments of transportation and police departments are two of the least democratic institutions in American society right now– and are two of the biggest threats to public health.

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Is COVID C-OV-er? In the US, maybe. There’s a Big “But.”

April 12, 2021April 12, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments bolsonaro, cardi b coronavirus, coronavirus, coronavirus vaccine, coronavirus variants, covid, covid variants, covid19 variants, grim milestone, grim milestones, india, jair bolsonaro, modi, modi india, narendra modi, nCoV19, public health

The COVID vaccine rollout in the US is, at long last, coming together. COVID vaccine rates in other countries are struggling as a product of inadequate supply and inadequate infrastructure. Addressing this is vital as a matter of global economic stability, if not basic humanitarianism.

Public Health Government

Detroit Gets It Right On Vaccine Rollout

March 24, 2021March 24, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments astra zeneca, astra zeneca vaccine, astrazeneca, cardi b coronavirus, coronavirus, coronavirus vaccine, COVID19 vaccine, detroit lions, ford field, JNJ vaccine, johnson & johnson vaccine, moderna, moderna vaccine, pfizer, pfizer vaccine, tcf center, vaccine, vaccine hesitancy, vaccine rollout, vaccines, why are the detroit lions so bad

Vaccine rollout in Detroit has gone a lot better than management of the pandemic when it first started, and for this, the city should be given credit.

Mobility Public Health Public Safety Cities & Urban Planning Cycling

Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America

January 25, 2021January 25, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments accessibility, automobile fatalities, automotive infrastructure, autonomous vehicle, autonomous vehicles, car fatalities, car infrastructure, cars, class, cycling, cycling safety, cyclist, cyclists, death, driving, elaine herzberg, elaine herzberg death, elaine herzberg uber, environmental racism, mobility, pedestrian, pedestrian deaths, pedestrian safety, pedestrianization, pedestrians, pedestrians killed, public health, public safety, race, safe mobility, safe streets, self-driving car, single-occupant vehicles, street design, streetscaping, walkability

Angie Schmitt’s Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America (2020) is a must-read

Business & Economics Urban Planning Burgerbanism Public Health

Outdoor Dining? This Is A Building With Four Walls And A Roof!

December 14, 2020January 4, 2021 Luo Yang 0 Comments accessory commercial unit, accessory structures, cafe gulistan, covid, COVID and outdoor dining, COVID and restaurants, COVID in restaurants, COVID outdoor dining, COVID safety, detroit shipping company, dining, eastern market, eastern market brewing company, eastern market detroit, harbert michigan, IAQ, IAQ and covid, indoor air quality, james hamblin, new york, new york city, outdoor dining, pizzaplex, restaurants, riopelle, solo stove, temporary structures

Restauranteurs are finding it hard to figure out how to adapt to the winter months.

Adaptation & Resilience Public Health Culture & Language

Handbuilt: Gratitude and Resilience In The Strangest Year On Record

November 26, 2020November 26, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments american history, coronavirus, covid, COVID19, covid19 diaries, culture, Detroit, historiography, history, hubbard farms, mexicantown, native and indigenous peoples, southwest detroit, thanksgiving, thanksgiving dinner, windsor

LAST NIGHT, MY PARTNER AND I SAT AT THE DINING TABLE THAT CAME INCLUDED WITH OUR 1895 HOUSE in Southwest

Public Health Data & Analytics

COVID, Bad Data, And The Rural-Urban Media Divide

November 19, 2020November 19, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments covid, COVID19, data, media markets, public health, rural economy, rural markets, small towns

In recent weeks, a lot of Americans in major metro areas have looked at the daily COVID case counts around

Politics Public Health Movements & Organizing

Oh, It’s A Coup All Right– They’re Just Really Bad At It.

November 10, 2020November 10, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments 2020 elections, 2020 presidential election, coronavirus, covid, COVID19, election, trump, trump administration

US President Donald Trump, in refusing to concede the election, is essentially amounting to a coup. Given the limited amount of competency of the administration, it alone is perhaps not terribly concerning– unless, you know, we combine this with the chaos created by COVID, and the threat of state violence.

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