A new interactive mapping tool created by the Opportunity Mapping Project at Berkeley's Othering and Belonging Institute overlays COVID-19 infection and mortality rates with a California map identifying areas with the highest pollution levels to help identify the most at-risk areas. "As this crisis has advanced, we wanted to bring the work we were doing to the coronavirus analysis," says Arthur Gailes, the fair housing coordinator for the Opportunity Mapping Project. "What are the groups that are disproportionately vulnerable specifically due to the quarantine and the economic crisis? ... Where are people specifically likely to be the most hurt by this crisis?" The project follows other research indicating a link between COVID-19 mortality rates and higher levels of air pollution, and, according to this mapping project, that would make areas like Bakersfield, Fresno, and Visalia some of the higher-risk areas in California. For more on this, see this story at Berkeley's Othering & Belonging Institute.