Articles by Rachel Ramirez
Rachel Ramirez is an environmental justice fellow at Grist
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From New York to Saipan, one family weathers coronavirus
It was bad enough when Super Typhoon Yutu struck my childhood home of Saipan. Now the coronavirus is reviving that trauma.
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A jail built on a landfill is at the center of America’s coronavirus outbreak
As of Tuesday morning, 287 New York City inmates and 406 jail staff had already tested positive for COVID-19.
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How vulnerable is your community to coronavirus? These new maps reveal a familiar pattern.
"Our most heavily weighted and frequent determining risk factor was air quality."
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Puerto Rico faces another disaster: The coronavirus pandemic
The island’s health infrastructure has not yet recovered from Hurricane Maria and more recent environmental disasters.
