This is Democracy Now.

This is Democracy Now.

The War and Peace Report.

I'm Amy Goodman.

We now bring you part two of our conversation with Stephen Thrasher, chair of Social Justice

and Reporting at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, author of The

Viral Underclass,class the human toll when inequality and disease

collide his forthcoming book the overseer class representation as

repression Stephen Thrasher is assistant professor of journalism

at Northwestern, but Northwestern canceled his classes and suspended him when it put him under investigation after Republicans

attacked him by name during congressional hearings about the Gaza protests on college campuses

this past semester. We talked about that in part one of our conversation. In part two

we want to focus on Stephen Thrasher's work on COVID and the viral underclass,

the name of his book, The Human Toll, Inequality and Disease Collide.

So we're years into the pandemic, Professor Thrasher.

On X, your handle is Dr Thrasher still cares about COVID and Gaza. Thank you for staying with us.

Explain.

I have that my handle because we are losing focus in a lot of the mainstream media about these two issues.

And so I think it's really important to keep taking COVID precautions.

I just saw last week the national numbers, which I'm sure are an under count showed about

1,250 COVID deaths. We've had four or five weeks in the United States straight

with more than a thousand deaths so it's important to remember that and of course it's important to keep

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