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Maria and Julio get into the science of the coronavirus pandemic with infectious disease epidemiologists\xa0Dr. Syra Madad,\xa0senior director of NYC Health & Hospitals\u2019 Special Pathogens Program,\xa0and\xa0Jessica Malaty Rivera, science communication lead for The COVID Tracking Project. They talk about what we have learned about COVID-19 a year into the pandemic, inequities in vaccine distribution, and what preparing for future pandemics must look like. ITT Staff Picks: - "Among the restrictions and shut downs and distancing, we\u2019ve had to acknowledge that the other side of staunch individualism is searing solitude. The other side of boundless privatization is a failing state. And the other side of what some called normal was uncontested white supremacy," writes Dr. Rhea Boyd\xa0in The Nation. - ProPublica is reporting on and tracking\xa0the barriers to accessing a vaccine as more Americans become eligible, and how inequity is built into the vaccination system.\xa0 - "For many, the vaccine's arrival was a reminder of how far behind the island remains after years of crisis,"\xa0reports Syra Ortiz-Blanes for the Miami Herald\xa0about the COVID-19 vaccine in Vieques, an island off of Puerto Rico where devastation from Hurricane Maria continues to leave thousands without access to a hospital. Photo credit: AP Photo/John Minchillo, File \xa0

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