Unheard Voices of the Pandemic

6 posts

How the pandemic affected incarcerated people and their loved ones

While incarcerated people were left to suffer behind prison walls during the first waves of the pandemic, their families were left to worry in the dark

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7 Min
By: Aiyuba Thomas, Tommaso Bardelli

‘The shelter system is a broken system,’ houseless San Francisco man says

Salvador Guerrero reveals the poor treatment he’s received from hotel and shelter workers during the pandemic.

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6 Min
By: Ela Banerjee, Annaick Miller

Incarcerated California man shares his experience contracting COVID-19 behind bars

This narrative in the Unheard Voices of the Pandemic series from Voice of Witness is published with permission, as part of a partnership with Prism. Interview and editing by Mateo Hoke.  Under usual circumstances, U.S. prisons and jails are unhealthy and dangerous places to be, but they have been

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6 Min
By: Mateo Hoke

‘I knew this was going to be a problem.’ L.A. nurse describes life in the early days of the pandemic

This narrative in the Unheard Voices of the Pandemic series from Voice of Witness is published with permission, as part of a partnership with Prism. Interview and editing by Virginia Eubanks. Nurses are widely praised as selfless heroes of the coronavirus pandemic, but they face workplace and political conditions that

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6 Min
By: Virginia Eubanks

I’m teaching second grade via Google Hangouts during the pandemic. Here’s what it’s been like

This narrative in the Unheard Voices of the Pandemic series from Voice of Witness is published with permission, as part of a partnership with Prism. Interview and editing by Ela Banerjee. Oscar Ramos teaches second grade in Salinas, which is the capital of the Salinas Valley and known as the

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6 Min
By: Oscar Ramos

‘It’s all still very uncertain’: Living through the pandemic in Puerto Rico

This narrative in the Unheard Voices of the Pandemic series from Voice of Witness is published with permission, as part of a partnership with Prism. Interview and editing by Marci Denesiuk. Emmanuel Rodríguez lives and works in a municipality on the west coast of Puerto Rico with a population of

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6 Min
By: Marci Denesiuk

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