Tag: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (U.S.)*
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AIDS Infection Rates vs. Gay owned Business Shutdowns, and COVID-19 Positive Cases vs. Asian American Owned Business Shutdown Hotspots
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M177 Creator: Kayla Ballas ’24 Public Health The first map displays the infection rates of AIDS per 100,000 people in juxtaposition to areas with high business closure rates. The lightest shade of red represents less than 10 cases per 100,000 people, the next shade of red represents 10-19.9 cases per 100,000 people, the…
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An Analysis of the 1918 Spanish Flu, the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic, and the Lasting Effects of Racial Disparities in the African Diaspora Exposed Through These Pandemics
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M172 Creator: Christina Inya ’21 Public Health This map demonstrates one of the commonalities between the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic and the 1918 Spanish Flu, in how the infection rates disproportionately targeted the Black communities living in America. It is especially interesting to note how during the 1918 Spanish flu, the top six most…
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Rise in Hate Crime Reports From 2019 to 2020
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M167 Creator: Ian Ono-Gerow ’21 East Asian Studies The Map shows the increase in the number of reported cases of hate crime in some of the major cities in the United States, comparing the year 2019 which was before the Covid-19 pandemic, and the year 2020, which is after the pandemic has started.…
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Covid cases, possible Spanish Flu and Covid transmission routes and mask mandates in the US
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M117 Creator: Philip Cavallo ’22 History Despite its name, the Spanish Flu most likely originated from the United States in Fort Riley Kansas. The government first took notice of the virus at Camp Devens, just outside of Boston. The Flu spread rapidly through the United States army in the first half of…
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Anti-Asian American Physically Violent Hate Crimes During Covid-19 & 3rd Wave of Bubonic Plague
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M116 Creator: Micaela Wallace ’21 German & History As with the Third Wave of the Bubonic Plague 100 years ago, the Covid-19 Pandemic in 2020 resulted in millions of people’s deaths. The United States responded in both pandemics by blaming the Asian-American community. Anti-Asian American physically violent hate crimes rose significantly through…
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Railways and Immigration, 1865-1914
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M090 Creator: John Fowell ’20 Geology As immigrants arrived in the United States looking for a new life, they used the railways to travel west into the American continent. They arrived in East Coast cities, like New York and Boston and headed into the Great Lakes and Midwest to places like Buffalo,…