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America Dissected

Homelessness, Incarceration, and COVID19

America Dissected

Incision Media LLC

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.64.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Abdul looks at recent studies on people infected with coronavirus, and then talks about people who are among those most at risk for the disease. He'll talk with Dr. Ashwin Vasan, President of Fountain House, a non-profit supporting people suffering severe mental illness, and Professor John Pfaff who studies mass incarceration to understand how this pandemic affects society’s most vulnerable--and what needs to be done to protect them.

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0:00.0

States around the country see spikes in people poisoned with disinfectant because, well,

0:14.0

someone said it might cure COVID-19.

0:16.3

It doesn't.

0:17.8

A host of studies suggest that far more people have antibodies to COVID-19 and probably

0:22.1

had it than we thought.

0:24.3

But the WHO reminds us that those antibodies may not mean that people are in fact immune.

0:29.7

This is America Dissective and I'm your host, Dr. Abduolalsai.

0:37.6

Social distancing in the form of stay home orders are the most important tool we have right

0:41.3

now to stop this pandemic, no matter what a couple of dudes with AK-47s want to say about

0:45.8

it.

0:46.8

But imagine you can't go home because you don't have one or because you're incarcerated.

0:52.6

That's what we're going to talk about today.

0:54.7

Folks suffering severe mental illness, homeless people and incarcerated people are among

0:58.2

the most vulnerable to COVID-19 and yet we pay them little attention because, well,

1:03.7

we've never paid them much attention.

1:06.0

And that's the problem.

1:07.4

Today, I want to focus on them.

1:10.2

But first, I want to give you some context of how far COVID-19 may have spread and how

1:15.2

early it started spreading.

1:17.8

Results from autopsies performed by the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner Corner suggest

1:21.9

that tissues from two people who died in their homes on February 6th and 17th tested positive

1:27.4

for the novel coronavirus.

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