This episode is divided into two parts. In the first here, we cover global COVID and U.S. COVID. In the second part, we’ll continue to track the disintegration of U.S. public health, not only through the specifics of the COVID response, but in the context of the country’s—indeed, the world’s—great divide in who counts as human enough to be worthy of material care and moral kindness. We'll link second part here as soon as it is completed. "COVID This Week" is produced by Vlad Jean, Shumon Alam, Rob Wallace, Rita Valenti, Les Schaffer, Bennett Torres, Zoe Levitt, Mary Jirmanus Saba, and the People's CDC.