America the Buzzkill
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Maria and Julio are joined by Alexis Madrigal, staff writer at The Atlantic and co-founder of The Atlantic's COVID Tracking Project. They dig into the stories behind the COVID-19 data, and discuss the disproportionate impact the disease continues to have on people of color, particularly the Latino community. ITT Staff Picks: - In Alexis' latest piece for The Atlantic, he warns of the dire consequences of the impending possibility that the country's COVID-19 testing system becomes overwhelmed, again. - The New York Times breaks down the data on the coronavirus racial disparities and the stories behind the staggering statistic that Latinos and Black Americans in the United States are three times more likely to become infected as their white counterparts. - After Mark Anthony Urquiza died of coronavirus, NBC's Nicole Acevedo reported on the now-viral obituary that his family wrote in The Arizona Republic, which attributed his death to "the carelessness of politicians who continue to jeopardize the health of black and brown bodies." Photo Credit: AP Photo/Matt York, File Â
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Dear listener, a quick favor. We're conducting an audience survey and we'd be really |
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| 0:23.0 | Grazias. |
| 0:26.0 | The thing you need to do for this virus is protect the most vulnerable people. |
| 0:30.0 | And this country has for hundreds of years been dependent on exploiting the most |
| 0:36.2 | vulnerable people not protecting us. |
| 0:37.8 | Hey welcome to In The Thick This is a podcast about politics, race, and culture from a POC perspective. |
| 0:46.0 | I'm Maria Inophosa and I'm Julio Ricalo Guarela. |
| 0:49.0 | And joining us from his home in quarantine in Oakland, California is Alexes-Marigal. |
| 0:55.0 | He's a staff writer at The Atlantic. |
| 0:57.0 | And do, check this out, co-founder of the Atlantic's COVID-tracking project. |
| 1:01.0 | Hey Alexis, welcome to the show. |
| 1:03.2 | Thank you for having me. Thank you so much. |
| 1:05.6 | Yeah, so we're going to be talking about a really sad topic because for us it's quite |
| 1:11.4 | personal which is the impact of COVID-19 on communities of |
| 1:15.2 | color and specifically and very particularly the Latino and Latino community. |
| 1:20.0 | Quick update right now it's dire. You know, does it matter that 45 suddenly |
| 1:26.3 | decided to wear a mask? Honestly, there's a part of me it's like, |
| 1:29.7 | Mevalé Madres and I'm in Porta, but he did do this for the first time publicly when he went. |
| 1:34.8 | Well I bet that Walter Reed National Military Medical Center said dude if you are not |
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