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Jason Q. Purnell

Jason Q. Purnell is an Associate Professor and Director of Health Equity Works in the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.

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Race

COVID-19 and the Color Line

Black Americans are dying of COVID-19 at much higher rates than whites, and nowhere more so than in St. Louis. This is the result of racist policies which collapsed the social safety net while setting blacks in the path of danger.

Colin Gordon, Walter Johnson, Jason Q. Purnell, Jamala Rogers

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