{ "cells": [ { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "92b777f7", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "# Lessons (Not) Learned: Chicago Health Inequities during the 1918 Flu and COVID-19.\n", "\n", "## Historic 1918 Influenza and 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic in Chicago: Health Diaparity during pandemic for slaves and other black living in Chicago" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "86d47cc8", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "### Objectives\n", "The purpose of this project is to illustrate the historical racial trauma in African Americans via tracing the linkage between 1918 flu pandemic and COVID-19 in Illinois. The project consists of three part of works: 1) digitizing and geoprocessing for historical analog data into digital resources, 2) identifying the neighborhood for each race, and 3) comparison between neighborhood and its mortality rate. As a part of result, several maps will be produced to achieve. This notebook would ptovide the intuition which racial group and factors were associated with the excess death rate in Chicago during pandemic." ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "0680f2a5", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "## 1. 1918 Influenza and pneumonia and COVID-19 data\n", " All historic maps that given geospatial/geolocation information were digitized and analyzed using ArcGIS software. To assess whether descendants of slaves and other Blacks living in Chicago were vulnerable to excess death during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic, data from the book, A Report of an Epidemic of Influenza in Chicago Occurring during the Fall of 1918, was digitized and analyzed. In the book are seven consecutive weekly maps of Chicago from the week ending on October 5th to the week ending on November 16th that illustrate the locations of influenza deaths and pneumonia deaths. Each point refers only to the location of death and not any description of the person who died." ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "7a5effe5", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "### Methods\n", "\n", "#### 1. Preparation: Geo-referencing and Digitizing\n", "\n", "##### (1) 1918 Historic Influenza map\n", "\n", "|DATE|