Write an essay on what’s happening right now with COVID-19 and how we’ve seen some of this before in US history.

Write an essay on what’s happening right now with COVID-19 and how we’ve seen some of this before in US history. How have issues of race/gender/class been impacted by COVID-19 and how were the impacted in the past? What kinds of measures did they take then in the 19th and 20th centuries and are we taking similar measures now? Or are we treating COVID-19 differently?