May 8, 2020
Sidney's Picks: The Death Track and COVID Tiger King
- “ ‘Essential worker’ just means you’re on the death track,” a slaughterhouse worker who caught coronavirus speaks out. [USA Today]
- The “Tiger King” park reopens to huge crowds, raising concerns that cubs are being exposed to COVID-19, which tigers can catch. [National Geographic]
- How to talk about racial disparities in COVID-19 without reinforcing racism. [New England Journal of Medicine]
- A new federal investigation has found that Indiana officials improperly exonerated Amazon after a worker was crushed by a forklift. [Reveal]
- Hillman’s own Jelani Cobb on why Stacey Abrams would like to be Vice-President. [New Yorker]
- The Supreme Court is making it easier for police officers to kill people and get away with it. [Reuters]