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COVID-19: Women will Bear the Burden

COVID-19: Women will Bear the Burden

"Endemic is the word for a pandemic in places that people in power can ignore. ...  If the grotesque combination of corporate greed, government inaction and global underfunding that perpetuates all plagues continues unchecked, endemicity is certain, and its burdens will be borne by people who are poor, Black, brown, LGBTQ and, often, women." --  Emily Bass, AIDS activist and journalist

Click here to read Emily Bass's insightful and troubling opinion piece in the Globe and Mail, If COVID-19 Becomes Endemic, Women Will Bear the Burden

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