The New Yorkerのインスタグラム(newyorkermag) - 12月29日 05時30分

One day in March, Dr. Ebony Hilton, based in Virginia, got a page. A patient was septic, and her kidneys were starting to fail. Ordinarily, doctors would suspect bacteria as the cause, but the infection’s spread had been alarmingly rapid. Hilton entered the room, wearing an N95 mask. The patient had no blood pressure; without intervention, her oxygen-starved brain would start dying within seconds. That was probably Hilton’s first COVID-19 patient, but there was no way to know. Virginia had barely any tests at that time.

The moment the first American COVID death was announced, in February, Hilton said, she “started doing a tweet storm to C.D.C. and W.H.O., saying, ‘We know racial health disparities exist, and they existed before covid—and we know where this will end up.’ ” At Hilton’s hospital, seven of the first ten COVID fatalities were minorities. “One out of 800 Black Americans who were alive in January is now dead,” Hilton said. “There would be another 20,000 alive if they died at the same rate as Caucasians.”

At the link in our bio, Lawrence Wright looks back at the yearlong COVID-19 catastrophe, and at the fatal missteps—and heroic efforts—that defined the U.S.’s response. Photo illustration by @tylercomrie; photograph by @nikolatamindzic for The New Yorker.

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