Nurses, essential workers "sacrificial lambs" of U.S. pandemics: article

NEW YORK, Nov. 10 (Xinhua) -- America's "willingness" to sacrifice its "essential workers" both in the Spanish Flu in 1918 and the COVID-19 in 2020, especially nurses and low wage workers, contributed to mass deaths, but it seems that the lesson has not been learned, reported Yale School of Medicine on Wednesday.

"I can't find a better word (necropolitics) to capture what was happening and what is still happening in the politics of COVID," Beatrix Hoffman, professor of history at Northern Illinois University, who examined this question in her recent lecture at Yale School of Medicine, was quoted as saying.