Dispatches from People Stranded in Place

Notes from America with Kai Wright

WNYC Studios

News Commentary, Politics, History, News

4.4 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

We’ve got two dispatches from communities where "social-distancing" is not an option. And where decisions we made long ago about homelessness and immigration policy are getting in the way of our ability to protect against Covid 19. WNYC Investigative Reporter Matt Katz brings us calls from inside immigration detention centers. And our reporter Marianne McCune checks in with a homeless advocate, Sam Dennison, who lives and works inside San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood, with the highest number of people sleeping in tents in the city. The United States of Anxiety’s health coverage is supported in part by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Working to build a Culture of Health that ensures everyone in America has a fair and just opportunity for health and well-being. More at RWJF.org.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody in this episode we have two dispatches each from a place where the public health response to COVID-19 is being undermined by choices that have little to do with health care.
0:11.0	Old long-standing choices about how we deal with homelessness.
0:15.1	Thousands of people on the streets who are kind of the bellwether of what's going to
0:19.6	happen to the rest of the city.
0:21.6	And how we treat roughly 40,000 people
0:24.9	who are locked inside increasingly dangerous facilities
0:28.1	waiting for decisions about whether they can remain in the US.
0:32.4	I'm Ky right, and this is the United States of
0:34.9	anxiety a show about the unfinished business of our history and its grip on
0:39.1	our future. I'm not going. You are right!
0:44.0	You are you!
0:46.0	Oh! H-H-H-H-P-P-N-P-E-N!
0:51.0	Yeah! Yeah, we can't. Hey, we can.
0:55.0	Hey Matt. Hi.
0:58.0	How you doing.
1:00.0	I'm hanging in. How are you?
1:01.0	I miss your face.
1:02.0	That's sweet.
1:03.0	Matt Katz is one of my colleagues at WNY C.
1:07.0	He's a tried and true investigative reporter,
1:09.0	which means he's one of those people in the newsroom
1:11.0	who just have sources everywhere.
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