{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/0185cea5-9e3b-4b82-a887-26f91f92765f/fec39a8b-3355-4114-ae8a-24eed31a1009?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Coronapod special: The inequality at the heart of the pandemic","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/61b9f3b71a8cbe675f3cedcb/61b9f40a7701000015817e15.png?height=200","description":"<p>For more than a century, public health researchers have demonstrated how poverty and discrimination drive disease and the coronavirus pandemic has only reinforced this.</p><p><br></p><p>In a&nbsp;<em>Coronapod</em>&nbsp;special,&nbsp;<em>Nature</em>&nbsp;reporter Amy Maxmen takes us with her through eight months of reporting in the San Joaquin valley, a part of rural California where COVID's unequal toll has proven deadly.</p><p><br></p><p><em>News:&nbsp;</em><a href=\"https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-021-00943-x/index.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Inequality's deadly toll</em></a></p><p><br></p><p><em>This piece was supported by grants from the Pulitzer Center and the MIT Knight Science Journalism fellowship.</em></p><p><br></p><p><span class=\"ql-cursor\"></span><a href=\"https://go.nature.com/get-the-nature-briefing?utm_source=coronapod&amp;utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=shownotes\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Subscribe to Nature Briefing, an unmissable daily round-up of science news, opinion and analysis free in your inbox every weekday.</strong></a></p><p><br></p>","author_name":"Springer Nature Limited"}