copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: "Hospitals murdered patients” with remdesivir, a drug banned from Ebola trials because of “53% kill rate.” (Instagram post, 2024-06-24)
Evidence (2021-09-20): A poison is a substance that can cause death or injury. Remdesivir is a drug that has a documented death rate of 53.1%, among many other adverse effects such as kidney and liver damage. [...] On 22 May 2020 Drugs In Context (DIC) published a report titled"The journey of remdesivir: from Ebola to COVID-19". The report was completed on 14 April 2020. The report outlines results of four drugs trialled to treat ebola. Remdesivir resulted in the highest death rate of the four drugs, with a death rate of 53.1%. [...] NIAID was involved in, and provided funding for, the ebola drug trials, and as such was aware of the 53% dealth rate of remdesivir.
Claim: "Hospitals murdered patients” with remdesivir, a drug banned from Ebola trials because of “53% kill rate.” (Instagram post, 2024-06-24)
Evidence (2021-05-18): It’s difficult to know how many people are dying from COVID-19, mostly because of the lack of adequate testing for the disease, according to epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch. In addition, mortality rates may differ across U.S. regions because different populations have different distributions of risk factors, such as age, hypertension, and obesity, Lipsitch said. He said that early reports that the antiviral drug remdesivir may be helping COVID-19 patients are encouraging, but cautioned that the drug "is not a solution to the pandemic."
Claim: In COVID-19 crisis, “only 20% of African Americans had jobs where they could work from home.” (Desiree Rogers, 2020-06-10)
Evidence (2020-06-10): 20% of African Americans could work from home, according to labor department data, compared with 30% of whites.
Claim: In COVID-19 crisis, “only 20% of African Americans had jobs where they could work from home.” (Desiree Rogers, 2020-06-10)
Evidence (2020-06-10): If Your Time is short - 20% of African Americans could work from home, according to labor department data, compared with 30% of whites. [...] "We know that only 20% of African Americans had jobs where they could work from home," Rogers told CNN June 10. "What does that tell you? They don't have the capacity to be able to work from home. They have service jobs, and so that means they have to be out." [...] Rogers said that only 20% of African Americans have jobs where they could work from home. That’s pretty much exactly what government data show.
Claim: In COVID-19 crisis, “only 20% of African Americans had jobs where they could work from home.” (Desiree Rogers, 2020-06-10)
Evidence (2020-11-23): Black Americans continue to be overrepresented in the lowest-paying service and domestic occupations, including taxi drivers and chauffeurs, food servers, and maids and house cleaners [7]. In such works, face-to-face contact with the public is required and social distancing is difficult to maintain. Nor do these jobs permit working from home, denying disproportionately more African Americans opportunities for the social distancing considered essential to mitigating risk [36]. Those who would voluntarily abandon work to reduce exposure to COVID-19 are sometimes denied the opportunity to do so. African Americans’ occupations render them more likely to be considered "essential workers," including grocery store, food service, health care, and courier workers, and they continue to perform their vocations in an environment of greater risk [37]. A recent study demonstrated that African Americans who were at high risk for severe illness for 1.6 time more likely than whites to live in households containing health-sector workers, and 56.5% of Black adults at high risk live in households were at least one worker is unable to work from home, compared to only 46.6% among whites [38]. If these workers become ill, they are less likely to have paid sick leave [39]. The Family First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) attempted to redress the problem by bringing paid sick leave to those previously without it, but exemptions greatly restricted the scope of new coverage [40]. Thus, COVID-19 capitalizes on the lack of work flexibility and control over working conditions to illuminate a previously neglected source of health-related risk [36].
Claim: In COVID-19 crisis, “only 20% of African Americans had jobs where they could work from home.” (Desiree Rogers, 2020-06-10)
Evidence (2020-09-15): The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the work of U.S. workers unequally. This post looks at how those job disruptions have affected key groups, based on the August 2020 jobs report (that is, the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Employment Situation, see the news release). [...] - African American and Hispanic workers had a higher share of their jobs disrupted than did white workers. Along with high death rates from COVID-19, these two groups of American workers have seen particularly dire labor market impacts from COVID-19. [...] - The share of African American workers retaining a tie to an employer is the smallest (only 56 percent) of any group. The share of disrupted African American workers who want a job, but who have not actively looked for work yet (nineteen percent), is the highest of all the demographic groups. This suggests the presence of continuing barriers to job searches for this group.
Claim: In COVID-19 crisis, “only 20% of African Americans had jobs where they could work from home.” (Desiree Rogers, 2020-06-10)
Evidence (2022-03-30): Two years into the pandemic, Black people in the U.S. still face wide health disparities in the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the economic and social fallouts, compared to other racial groups. [...] The Black Coalition Against COVID commissioned the report along with the Equity Research and Innovation Center at Yale School of Medicine, and the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine. [...] The researchers also highlight that Black Americans are facing significant behavioral health challenges as a result of COVID-19. Black Americans are more likely to report experiencing anxiety and depression because of the pandemic, and substance use disorders have also increased.
Claim: In COVID-19 crisis, “only 20% of African Americans had jobs where they could work from home.” (Desiree Rogers, 2020-06-10)
Evidence (2020-06-05): Minority Workers See Highest Levels Of Unemployment From COVID-19 Crisis [...] We already know that a pandemic brought the highest unemployment rate in our country since the Great Depression. Later this morning, we will see if it has gotten even worse. Forecasters say new numbers could show unemployment reached near 20% last month. We also know the reality behind these numbers. It's the fact that the unemployment picture is even more dire for African Americans and Latinos. And we're going to talk more about that in a moment. [...] GREENE: Can I focus on African Americans for a moment, though? I mean, you mentioned some of those, like, jobs in health care were shut down. But African Americans are also more likely to hold essential frontline jobs. And those jobs have kept going, which makes me wonder - there's this reality. Even if you are able to keep your job if you're African American, there's a good chance that you are doing a job that puts you at more risk of getting a virus.
Claim: In COVID-19 crisis, “only 20% of African Americans had jobs where they could work from home.” (Desiree Rogers, 2020-06-10)
Evidence (2021-06-28): On average 380 out of every 100,000 Black adults became new entrepreneurs during the 2020 pandemic, up from 240 in each of the prior two years, according to the study, based on census data. [...] Some 40% of Black-owned firms closed in the immediate aftermath of the outbreak versus 20% of all active U.S. business, according to research by Robert Fairlie, an economics professor at UC Santa Cruz. [...] Still, for many Black workers and would-be entrepreneurs, the economic crisis spurred by COVID-19 provided an opportunity to try for something better.
Claim: In COVID-19 crisis, “only 20% of African Americans had jobs where they could work from home.” (Desiree Rogers, 2020-06-10)
Evidence (2020-06-24): Ability to work from home: evidence from two surveys and implications for the labor market in the COVID-19 pandemic [...] Our analysis of merged O*NET–ATUS data and merged O*NET–NLSY79 data indicates that about 45 percent of U.S. employment is in occupations in which telework is feasible. However, a much lower percentage of workers actually worked at home prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, only a little more than 10 percent of workers in the ATUS spent any paid workday working only at home, and a similar percentage in the NLSY79 usually spent more than 8 hours a week working at home. Thus, according to both surveys, the implied takeup rate—that is, the percentage of workers who were in occupations in which telework is technologically feasible and who actually worked at home—was quite low prior to the pandemic. According to the ATUS, the takeup rate was about 25 percent. In the NLSY79, with its sample of older workers, the takeup rate was about 22 percent.
Claim: In COVID-19 crisis, “only 20% of African Americans had jobs where they could work from home.” (Desiree Rogers, 2020-06-10)
Evidence (2020-12-09): To be sure, not all employed adults have the option of working from home, even during a pandemic. In fact, a majority of workers say their job responsibilities cannot be done from home. There’s a clear class divide between workers who can and cannot telework. Fully 62% of workers with a bachelor’s degree or more education say their work can be done from home. This compares with only 23% of those without a four-year college degree. Similarly, while a majority of upper-income workers can do their work from home, most lower- and middle-income workers cannot.2 [...] Similar shares across age, income and racial and ethnic groups say they’d want to work from home all or most of the time after the coronavirus outbreak is over if they had a choice. Among employed adults with some college or less education who say they can do their job from home, 60% say they would want to work from home all or most of the time post-pandemic, compared with half of those with at least a bachelor’s degree.
Claim: In COVID-19 crisis, “only 20% of African Americans had jobs where they could work from home.” (Desiree Rogers, 2020-06-10)
Evidence (2021-11-07): Women of color work in jobs that place them on the frontlines of the COVID-19 crisis. Many of the top jobs in which women of color work—such as nursing assistants, home health aides, and child care workers providing emergency child care—are included in the categories of jobs deemed by many jurisdictions as essential; thus, these women are required to go to work in the face of an unprecedented crisis.15 The risks that these women face are multifaceted. Women of color working in jobs deemed essential may confront higher risks of contracting COVID-19 because of their proximity to infected individuals, infected environments, or the virus itself. And some groups may be more at risk than others. For example, nearly one-third of all nursing assistants and home health aides are Black women.16 Among early childhood workers in center- and home-based settings, nearly 40 percent are people of color—many of whom are women.17
Claim: In COVID-19 crisis, “only 20% of African Americans had jobs where they could work from home.” (Desiree Rogers, 2020-06-10)
Evidence (2022-03-22): Essential workers have been called on to meet our basic needs during the COVID-19 crisis. A significant portion of these workers, frontline workers, cannot work remotely. On average, frontline workers are disproportionately comprised of less educated and minority workers, especially Hispanics, and immigrants. They earn below average wages and have a substantial share of workers in the bottom wage quartile. Thus, the provision of hazard pay to these workers may be merited both because of the risks they take by remaining on their jobs as well on equity grounds. Other benefits should also be considered including support for the childcare needs of these workers, paid sick leave, coverage of COVID-19 health expenses for those who lack health insurance, and death benefits to the families of those who have died of the virus.
Claim: In COVID-19 crisis, “only 20% of African Americans had jobs where they could work from home.” (Desiree Rogers, 2020-06-10)
Evidence (2020-03-19): The commonly paired statements that "everyone is working from home" and "everyone is having their goods delivered" amid the coronavirus outbreak ignores a whole segment of the workforce—the ones prepping and delivering their purchases. In fact, less than 30% of workers can work from home, and the ability to work from home differs enormously by race and ethnicity. The chart below separates the share of workers who can telework for the three largest race groups as well as by Hispanic ethnicity (these groups are not mutually exclusive in these data). Asian workers are the most likely to be able to work from home, followed by non-Hispanic and white workers. Only 16.2% of Hispanic workers and 19.7% of black workers can telework. Less than one in five black workers and roughly one in six Hispanic workers are able to work from home: Share of workers who can telework, by race and ethnicity, 2017--2018
Claim: In COVID-19 crisis, “only 20% of African Americans had jobs where they could work from home.” (Desiree Rogers, 2020-06-10)
Evidence (2024-04-25): Homeownership is the main way people build wealth in the United States. Yet in 2018, the Black-white homeownership gap reached 30.5 percentage points, its highest level in 50 years. Black homeownership rates declined the most following the 2008 housing market crisis and only started to recover in 2019, just before the pandemic hit. Though 2022 estimates suggest homeownership rates among Black, Hispanic, and Asian families are increasing, Black Americans remain the only racial group with a homeownership rate below 50 percent. [...] These disparities are the result of exclusionary and discriminatory policies, such as redlining in the financial industry and means testing in public benefits programs, that have historically penalized and discouraged people of color and lower-income households from building savings.
Claim: In COVID-19 crisis, “only 20% of African Americans had jobs where they could work from home.” (Desiree Rogers, 2020-06-10)
Evidence (2023-03-22): While the pandemic has exacerbated and highlighted the economic precarity of too many children and families, the issues that cause such high rates of child poverty in the United States existed long before the public health crisis. Systemic inequalities stretching back to even before the country’s founding7 contribute to disproportionate rates of poverty for Black and Latinx children in particular. And ultimately, joblessness, caregiving responsibilities, single parenthood, and other common life events only put children at risk of economic insecurity because U.S. policies have allowed that reality. [...] Nearly half of low-wage workers, meaning those in the bottom quarter of earners, do not have access to a single paid sick day to protect their health or care for a sick family member without risking a paycheck.32 More than 90 percent of low-wage workers and part-time workers do not have access to paid family leave through their employer.33 The disparities are also stark across race and gender: Less than half of Black workers and just one-quarter of Latino workers had access to paid leave, and Black and Hispanic women were more likely than white women to lose or leave their jobs after giving birth.34 Those disparities are exacerbated by a lack of affordable child care, which is one of the biggest expenses for families today.35 Without better options, parents must consider working fewer hours, taking a pay cut, or leaving their jobs to ensure their children are cared for. For families in poverty, whose jobs already tend be unstable, inflexible, and inadequately compensated, the decisions surrounding child care can have dire consequences for their family budgets and potential future employment.
Claim: In COVID-19 crisis, “only 20% of African Americans had jobs where they could work from home.” (Desiree Rogers, 2020-06-10)
Evidence (2020-03-20): In response, the authorities reintroduced new (stringent) containment measures in March 2021, including (but not limited to): (1) Reintroduction of work-from-home for government workers, with the exception of essential workers; (2) closure of schools and universities for two weeks (starting on February 23); (3) suspension of passport applications until further notice; (4) mandatory facemask in all public spaces; (5) suspension of public gathering and at least a 2-meter social distance to be observed by people attending permitted meetings; but this measure is drawing criticisms from the opposition citing the use of restrictions to stop planned protests; (6) travelers should show negative PCR test result (within 72 hours of travel) and should observe (8 to 14 days) quarantine upon arrival; and (7) weddings and special parties are suspended and sports arenas and gyms have been closed. [...] On February 3, 2021, due to the recent surge in COVID-19 cases in the country, the following precautionary measures are put in place: i) ban of all social gatherings including sport and religious events, ii) school closures, iii) private and public sectors to allow work from home, iv) closure of businesses that attract crowds such as bars, clubs, and casinos, v) limit the load of bus and taxi to half capacity, vi) mandatory COVID-19 tests for incoming flight passengers, vii) mandatory use of mask, and vii) various social distancing measures.
Claim: In COVID-19 crisis, “only 20% of African Americans had jobs where they could work from home.” (Desiree Rogers, 2020-06-10)
Evidence (2022-03-09): The COVID-19 pandemic is, among other things, a massive experiment in telecommuting. Up to half of American workers are currently working from home, more than double the fraction who worked from home (at least occasionally) in 2017-18. [...] Just under one-third of all workers over the age of 15 say they can work from home, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates from the 2017-18 American Time Use Survey. Many of those who worked from home did not have an official work-from-home arrangement but were instead taking work home with them (such as at night or over the weekend). Only 20% said they were occasionally paid to work from home, and just 12% worked from home at least one full day per month. [...] Overall, these numbers suggest that about half of employed adults are currently working from home, though a recent paper estimates that only a third of jobs can be done entirely from home. Either way, this is a massive shift. Between 2005 and 2015, the fraction of workers who regularly worked from home increased by only about 2 to 3 percentage points, according to Mas and Pallais (2020). Even at that growth rate, telecommuting has been the fastest-growing method of commuting over the last several years. If our new telecommuting culture sticks, the pandemic will have accelerated this trend dramatically. Already, nearly one in five chief financial officers surveyed last week said they planned to keep at least 20% of their workforce working remotely to cut costs.
Claim: In COVID-19 crisis, “only 20% of African Americans had jobs where they could work from home.” (Desiree Rogers, 2020-06-10)
Evidence (2020-06-03): As states begin opening up, the pandemic "caste system" will only be further exacerbated, as the wealthy retreat to secluded vacation homes, the middle class work remotely while homeschooling, and the working class are forced to keep the economy running and care for children at the same. This system has gendered dimensions as well. Among middle class workers, men are likelier to work in jobs that can be remote (28% relative to 22%). Women who can continue to work remotely—who are disproportionately White, Asian American, and middle or upper middle class—must perform both paid work and care work at home. One survey found that 14% of women had considered quitting their jobs because of the intensified parenting demands from school closures—a burden unevenly placed on mothers. Among the working class, women are both more likely to work in person, have lower-earning jobs, and be the primary breadwinner, as one-fifth of children live with a solo mother. This is most pronounced for Black mothers, 60% of whom are single mother breadwinners. Only 20% of Black workers can work remotely, relative to 30% of White workers and 37% of Asian American workers. Black women, in particular, are overrepresented in home care work, which is unlikely to have robust employment protections. These women will continue to work a double shift at the workplace and at home, all while risking exposing themselves and their families.
Claim: In COVID-19 crisis, “only 20% of African Americans had jobs where they could work from home.” (Desiree Rogers, 2020-06-10)
Evidence (2022-04-08): Job market fluctuations and accompanying insurance lapses bring into question the very concept of employer-provided healthcare and offer an additional argument for public insurance taking a larger role in the U.S. Employment changes caused by COVID-19 led to an estimated 9 million workers losing access to employer-sponsored health insurance at some point during the pandemic. Additionally, enrollment in Medicare increased by 4 million during COVID-19. [...] With childcare facilities shut down due to the pandemic or operating at reduced capacity and students engaged in remote learning, many low-wage workers have been unable to return to their pre-pandemic jobs. As parents return to work after COVID-19 shutdowns, it is harder than ever for them to find affordable childcare. Additionally, because many low-wage workers do not have access to paid time off or paid sick leave, they often must take off work without pay to care for a sick child as many schools and childcare facilities will not allow a sick child to remain in the facility. This disproportionately impacts female workers, as mothers are more often responsible for staying home when children are sick or off for school holidays.
Claim: In COVID-19 crisis, “only 20% of African Americans had jobs where they could work from home.” (Desiree Rogers, 2020-06-10)
Evidence (2022-02-16): Nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, roughly six-in-ten U.S. workers who say their jobs can mainly be done from home (59%) are working from home all or most of the time. The vast majority of these workers (83%) say they were working from home even before the omicron variant started to spread in the United States, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. This marks a decline from October 2020, when 71% of those with jobs that could be done from home were working from home all or most of the time, but it’s still much higher than the 23% who say they teleworked frequently before the coronavirus outbreak. [...] Most U.S. workers (60%) don’t have jobs that can be done from home, and others who do have these types of jobs are going into their workplace at least sometimes. For a large majority of these workers, their jobs continue to involve at least some in-person interaction with others at their workplace. About half of those who ever interact with other people at their workplace say they’re very (19%) or somewhat (32%) concerned about being exposed to the coronavirus. This is virtually unchanged from October 2020. Roughly one-in-four (26%) say they are more concerned about this now than they were before the omicron variant started to spread, and the same share say they are less concerned now. A plurality (47%) say they are about as concerned now as they were before omicron.