Covid-19 triggered a public health crisis at an unprecedented scale. Almost three years later and after over 1 million deaths, the US, wealthiest country in the world, is still unable to find a solution.  As we face the very likely possibility of another surge in covid-19 cases, we turn to Rob Wallace, evolutionary biologist and public health phylogeographer to help us understand how we have arrived at this reality, despite great advances in our understanding of disease, biology, and public health.  What does epidemiology reveal about capitalism? How can we employ epidemiology to understand our conditions under capitalism as well as in the process of building towards a world organized around the needs and well being of the population; a socialist world?

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STUDY MATERIALS

Biology Under the Influence: Dialectical Essays on Ecology, Agriculture, and Health. By Richard Lewontin and Richard Levins.

Chapter 2: "The Return of Old Diseases and the Appearance of New Ones"
Chapter 27: "Is Capitalism a Disease? The Crisis in U.S. Public Health"

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Planet Farm, by Rob Wallace.

COVID-19 and Circuits of Capital by Rob Wallace, Alex Liebman, Luis Fernando Chaves and Rodrick Wallace

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