COVID and vaccines
Write a research essay. AT LEAST 9 paragraphs. Use the resources in the links below. You must use these sources for the essay. Answer all of the following questions in your essay:
1) How has Covid-19 impacted workers in the US? India? China? Latin America?
2) How have the bosses in the US and China participated in the use of vaccines in their countries and also around the world?
3) Can capitalists anywhere in the world lead us into a future where a healthy working class is possible? Why? Why Not?
SOURCES ARE LISTED BELOW!!!
I. Causes of Covid-19 Outbreak 1) https://chuangcn.org/2020/02/social-contagion/ (SCROLL DOWN to where the heading “Gilded Age” is visible. Once you get there, the next 5 or 6 paragraphs BREAKS IT DOWN how the economic situation (health care, working conditions, food sources) in China led to the outbreak and spread 2) https://www.brookings.edu/research/ten-facts-about-covid-19-and-the-u-s-economy/ (look closely at this article. It explains how and why the outbreak in the US happened. Look closely. Quote from it in your paper)
II. Impact of Covid-19 on Workers in Different Parts of the World: 1) India: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/27/india-nears-200000-covid-deaths-army-steps-in 2) US: https://www.brookings.edu/research/ten-facts-about-covid-19-and-the-u-s-economy/ (look closely at this article. It explains how and why the outbreak in the US happened. Look closely. Quote from it in your paper) 3) Latin America: http://www.plp.org/challenge/2020/8/28/capitalist-bosses-plague-colombia.html 4) https://portside.org/2020-04-12/scholar-pandemics-and-inequality-peers-americas-future (effects in the US)
III. Vaccines and Greed—Is any capitalist nation “good”? 1) http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/461158/28422799/1617376673133/041421-WEB.pdf?token=XgLDay4I56H1yPOOow5OiQYKSOU%3D 2) https://www.qiaocollective.com/en/articles/vaccine-internationalism 3) http://www.plp.org/challenge/2021/2/5/capitalism-cant-keep-up-with-covid-19-mutations.html
