Sarah P Jones is a writer for New York magazine and now the author of Disposable, a study of “America’s Contempt for the Underclass”. Her new book describes in relentless detail what Covid-19 did to those who could not afford to fight the virus – or even to cope – in a country where access to healthcare depends on what you can pay.
The book is also a work of personal history: its subjects include Jones’s grandfather, one of more than 1.2 million Americans killed by the virus.
