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The Breakdown with Shaun King

Ep. 202 - Seven reasons why African Americans are at a higher risk of contracting the coronavirus

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.812.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Experts believe that within the next 10 days, the United States -- not China, Italy, or Spain -- will have the most cases of Covid-19 worldwide. On today's episode, Shaun breaks down seven reasons why African Americans are actually at a much higher risk of contracting the coronavirus as it spreads across the country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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Last month as news of the coronavirus started to spread, so many people on my social

0:06.2

media timelines were saying that it looked like black folk couldn't get it.

0:10.8

It's a foolish conclusion, I but at the time the epicenters of the virus were almost exclusively among white and Asian countries and communities.

0:21.0

Now experts believe that the United States, not China or Italy or Spain,

0:28.0

will have the most cases worldwide in about 10 days as it spreads across the country, I want to share with you today

0:36.2

seven reasons why African Americans are actually at a much higher risk of

0:41.8

contracting the coronavirus.

0:44.0

Also have a really funny clip to play for you and today we want to keep on pushing

0:49.4

for Woman Crush Wednesday. This is Sean King, you are listening to

0:53.7

The Breakdown.

0:55.1

The Breakdown.

0:57.0

The Breakdown.

1:00.0

The Breakdown.

1:01.0

The Breakdown. Now. Before we begin today's full episode, I have to play this flip for you that I just saw on social media.

1:14.7

It's of a woman talking about her experience at the grocery store.

1:19.2

Just listen until she's finished. It's funny and not funny. It's serious and funny at the same time.

1:26.8

And that's kind of how humor has to be during the age of the coronavirus where things are super serious and often really

1:35.0

depressing but you have to have a light-hearted moment every now and then let me

1:39.0

play this clip for you we're gonna play the whole thing and I just wasn't expecting it to go where it eventually went at the end.

1:47.0

Here we go.

1:50.0

But I just thought I'd let you all know I went to Mariano's today, minding my own business,

1:56.0

and there were these women in line, and I had a cart and I asked to excuse me,

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