Disposable: what Covid-19 did to those who couldn’t afford to fight the virus
Sarah Jones’s book includes personal history, including her grandfather – one of 1.2 million Americans the virus killed
Sarah P Jones is a writer for New York magazine and now the author of Disposable, a study of “America’s Contempt for the Underclass”. Her new book describes in relentless detail what Covid-19 did to those who could not afford to fight the virus – or even to cope – in a country where access to healthcare depends on what you can pay.
The book is also a work of personal history: its subjects include Jones’s grandfather, one of more than 1.2 million Americans killed by the virus.
Disposable is published in the US on Tuesday
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