Transnational STS COVID-19 Project
This is the Transnational STS COVID-19 project page.
THE 2016 FORMOSA INCIDENT TIMELINE
The incident first happened on April 4th, 2016 by a large amount of unnatural dead sea fish washed up on the Vung Ang seashore (Ha Tinh province) near the Formosa Ha Tinh Steel plant.
Formosa Vietnam Movement
Image by Justice for Formosa Victims, 2019.
COVID19 Places: India
This essay scaffolds a discussion of how COVID19 is unfolding in India. A central question this essay hopes to build towards is: If we examine the ways COVID19 is unfolding in India, does "Ind
Transnational STS COVID-19 Project Participants
Profiles of participants in the Transnational STS COVID-19 Project.
COVID Communications
Digital collection supporting a Transnational Disaster STS COVID-19 Collaboration Call, Thursday, July 2, 2020.
COVID-19 meatpacking
pdez90Industrial meatpacking plants in countries all over the world (USA, Germany, Australia) have all become hotspots of COVID-19 (Link).
The close proximity in which workers working in such plants, the gruelling hours, the lack of access to healthcare among workers (many of whom are immigrants, refugees and POCs), are all reasons why such plants have emerged as hotspots. This Propublica article talks about the amont of preparation that such an industry has for pandemic flu outbreaks that could wipe out animals, but failed to do the same for their workers (Link). Moreover, our desire of meat (bad for the environment and unsustainable), has resulted in these companies having a tremendous amount of clout which allowed some to go over the heads of local officials as the ProPublica article reports.
This links to the Philadelphia Department of Public Health's website. Alex Skula is a Public Health Preparedness Analyst in the Division of Disease Control at the