Deadly Disparities in the time of COVID-19: Behind the Report
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Early in the pandemic, Claire Decoteau, Iván Arenas their robust team of interdisciplinary researchers began to interview Black, Latinx, and white residents of three Chicago neighborhoods in order to explore how the pandemic has impacted different communities. Drawing on over 150 interviews with residents and policy makers, the team found that while COVID-19 has been treated as a health crisis at the federal, state, and local levels, city residents experienced it as a much broader crisis related to housing, jobs, childcare, schooling, and healthcare.
Featured Researchers
Claire Decoteau, PhD
Professor, Department of Sociology
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
University of Illinois Chicago
Iván Arenas
Associate Director
Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy
University of Illinois at Chicago
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“Deadly Disparities in the time of COVID-19: How Public Policy Fails Black and Latinx Chicagoans,” December 2021
View panel discussions from 12/01/2021 and 12/09/2021
UIC Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy