Five years after COVID-19 first emerged, the United States is still grappling with the aftereffects of the pandemic that killed millions of people worldwide. They include the gaps in the nation's health care system and social safety net that were highlighted by the pandemic's effects.
Those inequities are the focus of journalist Sarah Jones' “Disposable: America's Contempt for the Underclass,” a deeply reported, enlightening and empathetic look at the populations that were hit hardest by the pandemic.
