What We Have Yet to Learn from COVID-19: An Excerpt from "How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic"

What We Have Yet to Learn from COVID-19: An Excerpt from "How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic"

At the fifth-year anniversary of the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, hope for “lessons learned” seems more remote than ever. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., a noted vaccine denier, has just been named Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Medicaid and 504s, among other fragile elements of the social safety net for disabled people in the U.S., are at serious risk of defunding or dismantling. And government rh…