Part One: A conversation with Markian Hawryluk, who is the senior Colorado correspondent for KHN, based in Denver. He has reported on health care for more than 25 years, writing for such publications as the Houston Chronicle, American Medical News and, most recently, The (Bend, Ore.) Bulletin. He has won numerous awards for his health reporting from the Association of Health Care Journalists and the Society of Professional Journalists and, in 2009, won Oregon’s top reporting prize, the Bruce Baer Award for investigative journalism. In 2013, he was named a Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan. He holds a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Illinois.
The Hidden Deaths Of The COVID Pandemic
We discuss the deaths nationwide that can be indirectly attributed to the Covid pandemic. While the immediate cause of death for many of the people who were so affected, the virus can be blamed for deaths in various ways:
1 deferred treatment: persons who were suffering from other serious events, such as heart attacks or cancer, afraid to go to the emergency room or for ongoing treatment because they were afraid of catching the virus in a hospital.
2 conditions that those who recover from Covid have as permanent effects, such as compromised lung functions, heart issues, and others.
3 fear of government actions, when people who are afraid to get tested because of immigration status and their fear of being deported.
Health authorities have been able to predict these ‘excess deaths’, but because of the health care system in the US, treatment is problematic.
https://khn.org/news/death-records-coronavirus-casualty-count-the-hidden-deaths-of-the-covid-pandemic/Part two: The Monkey Cage reporter Matt
Part 2: Nelsen (“Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.” — H.L. Mencken)
Matthew Nelsen (@nelsen_matt) is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University.
America’s classrooms shut down this spring. Civics lessons shifted to the streets, and now protests are teaching about political engagement.
Matthew Nelson has done research on what effects the textbooks used in grade schools and high schools have had on the willingness of students to later participate inpolitical engagement. He has also examined how local newspaper coverage slants news to present a version of reality according to the ethos of the community. For example, Texas and California teach civics, but the approach and philosophy is very different in each state. This presents a problem when trying to solve a the issues that present. It also affects how and whether citizens will participate in the conversation.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/06/22/americas-classrooms-shut-down-this-spring-civics-lessons-shifted-streets/
