This is Atiba Esion.

This is Derek Paul.

And welcome back to the anti-racism and medicine series of the Clinical Problem Solvers

Podcasts, where as always, our goal is to equip our listeners

at all levels of training with the tools to practice anti-racism and their health professional

careers. We have a very special guest today. Ed Yong is an award-winning journalist and

science writer for the Atlantic. This year, Ed's reporting, including

his cover story, how the pandemic defeated America, has won several journalism awards, and there

are surely many more awards to come. Ed Yong, welcome to the podcast. Hi, thanks so much for having

me. Ed, again, we're so grateful for your

time here. Our show, as I mentioned, is about practicing anti-racism and medicine. And in our

journey so far, we've learned a lot about the importance of combating structural inequities.

In your piece in August this year,

you mentioned that the coronavirus found, exploited,

and widened every inequity that the US has had to offer.

You know, with the second wave coming or actually being here today,

how can we have seen the structural inequities play out at this point?

And what do you think we can expect to come?

Yeah, I think many of the people of color I know who work and infectious diseases and pandemic preparedness, you know,

saw what has actually happened happening a mile away, like went from the earliest point to the

pandemic, you know, people recognized that black and indigenous and Latino and Pacific Islander groups were more likely to be disproportionately

influenced, disproportionately infected and killed by the coronavirus. Even when policymakers

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