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Collected Item: “Covid becoming a death sentence”

Give your story a title.

Covid becoming a death sentence

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

image

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

This is the image of a Tweet from a physician expressing her sorrow over the death of an incarcerated person and her belief that incarcerated persons with Covid deserve the same care as anyone else.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

incarceration, prison, jail, death sentence, Covid, medical care, doctor, social media

Enter a URL associated with this object, if relevant.

https://twitter.com/AnjaliJacob_/status/1291242041721024512

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Anjali Jacob

Give this story a date.

2020-08-06
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