Beatrice speaks with Alice Wong about Alice's campaign to reinstate a mask mandate at UCSF, a hospital system home to a number of physicians who have played an outsized, deleterious, role in advocating for a premature end to covid protections.

Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/alice-wong-ucsf

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Further reading:

Alice Wong’s most recent column for Teen Vogue: COVID Isn’t Going Anywhere. Masking Up Could Save My Life.
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/covid-isnt-going-anywhere-masking-up-could-save-my-life

Alice Wong, August 2022 (Disability Visibility Project): My ICU Summer: A Photo Essay
https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2022/08/07/my-icu-summer-a-photo-essay/

Alice Wong, 2020 (Disability Visibility Project): Disabled Oracles and the Coronavirus
https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2020/03/18/coronavirus/

Alice Wong, March 2023 (Teen Vogue): The “Unwinding” of Medicaid Coverage Will Be Difficult for Disabled Americans, Leave More People Uninsured
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/medicaid-coverage-covid

Alice Wong’s 2023 interview with KQED: Alice Wong: I Still Have a Voice
https://www.kqed.org/perspectives/201601142614/alice-wong-i-still-have-a-voice

Alice Wong, January 2024 (Disability Visibility Project): Disabled Outrage and #PodSaveJon
https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2024/01/02/disabled-outrage-and-podsavejon/