{"id":12819,"date":"2021-01-10T21:37:53","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T02:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=12819"},"modified":"2021-01-10T21:37:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T02:37:56","slug":"there-are-more-covid-deaths-in-environmental-justice-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/there-are-more-covid-deaths-in-environmental-justice-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"There are more COVID deaths in Environmental Justice communities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrdc.org\/stories\/year-struggle-ends-one-fearful-uncertainty-begins?tkd=5605149&amp;utm_campaign=email&amp;utm_medium=story2ne&amp;utm_source=newsletterne\">According to the NRDC<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"small\">&#8220;Blacks, and other people of color, have been contracting and dying from the respiratory disease at disproportionate rates\u2014a consequence epidemiologists have traced to health inequities, including&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrdc.org\/onearth\/when-virus-exposes-environmental-injustice\">exposure to air pollution<\/a>, and the structural racism undergirding housing and job patterns. Workers of color are&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/black-americans-unemployment-coronavirus-layoffs-disproportionately-high-april-bls-data-2020-6\">overrepresented in service industries<\/a>&nbsp;that have been deemed essential\u2014industries without options for social distancing or remote work. According to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cepr.net\/a-basic-demographic-profile-of-workers-in-frontline-industries\/\">the Center for Economic and Policy Research<\/a>, Black employees represented 12 percent of the total U.S. workforce in April but comprised 17 percent of frontline workers.&#8221;<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the NRDC: &#8220;Blacks, and other people of color, have been contracting and dying from the respiratory disease at disproportionate rates\u2014a consequence epidemiologists have traced to health inequities, including&nbsp;exposure to air pollution, and the structural racism undergirding housing and job patterns. Workers of color are&nbsp;overrepresented in service industries&nbsp;that have been deemed essential\u2014industries without options &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/there-are-more-covid-deaths-in-environmental-justice-communities\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;There are more COVID deaths in Environmental Justice communities&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":12829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[2816,2817,2797,2675],"class_list":["post-12819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","tag-cej","tag-communities","tag-covid","tag-deaths"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12819"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12852,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12819\/revisions\/12852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}