{"id":7272,"date":"2020-04-21T17:45:16","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T00:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/css\/?post_type=stories&#038;p=7272"},"modified":"2022-02-16T19:25:32","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T19:25:32","slug":"judy-rohrer-the-virus-does-discriminate","status":"publish","type":"stories","link":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/news\/judy-rohrer-the-virus-does-discriminate\/","title":{"rendered":"Judy Rohrer&#8217;s &#8220;The virus does discriminate&#8221; Featured in the Spokesman-Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_466\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-466\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-466\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2019\/03\/RohrerJudySM-e1551744266951-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Judy Rohrer\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2019\/03\/RohrerJudySM-e1551744266951-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2019\/03\/RohrerJudySM-e1551744266951-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2019\/03\/RohrerJudySM-e1551744266951.jpg 408w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-466\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor Judy Rohrer&#8217;s Editorial was published in the <em>Spokesman-Review<\/em> on 04\/21\/2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>People are still saying \u201cthe virus doesn\u2019t discriminate,\u201d but we know that\u2019s not true. The virus is hitting vulnerable populations the hardest \u2013 our elderly, those with underlying health conditions, unhoused people, Natives, Black and Brown communities and especially those living at any of these intersections. These are the same folks disproportionately trapped in prisons, jails and detention centers. And while COVID-19 ravages those communities, some leaders have insisted on calling it the \u201cChinese virus,\u201d leading to attacks on Asian people across the country&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People are still saying \u201cthe virus doesn\u2019t discriminate,\u201d but we know that\u2019s not true. The virus is hitting vulnerable populations the hardest \u2013 our elderly, those with underlying health conditions, unhoused people, Natives, Black and Brown communities and especially those living at any of these intersections. These are the same folks disproportionately trapped in prisons,<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/news\/judy-rohrer-the-virus-does-discriminate\/\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":425,"featured_media":7278,"menu_order":1,"template":"","class_list":["post-7272","stories","type-stories","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","stories_categories-gender-womens-sexuality-studies","stories_tags-wgs-news"],"acf":{"featured_video":"","subheading":"","display_byline":false,"display_date_published":true,"Links":[{"stories_ctas_link":{"title":"Read Full Story","url":"https:\/\/www.spokesman.com\/stories\/2020\/apr\/21\/judy-rohrer-the-virus-does-discriminate\/","target":"_blank"}}],"Resources":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/7272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/stories"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/425"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/7272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12939,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/7272\/revisions\/12939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}