ICYMI - Lori Lightfoot on Tackling the Coronavirus in Chicago and Spreading Hope with Humor

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🗓️ 18 April 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot discusses the steps her administration is taking to battle COVID-19 and its disproportionate impact on the city's communities of color. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Comedy Central.
0:02.5	BAM!
0:03.5	May I light-foot?
0:06.1	Welcome to the Daily Social Distance Show.
0:08.1	It's my pleasure.
0:09.3	Um, let's jump straight into it.
0:11.3	You have quickly become one of the busiest mayors in America.
0:15.6	In an unfortunate time, because coronavirus has really had a deep impact on Chicago.
0:21.6	The coronavirus as we've seen is having a disproportionate impact on communities of
0:26.1	color.
0:27.1	Americans are dying at higher rates.
0:29.0	I think 70% of the people who have died in your area are black, whereas only 29% of
0:33.9	the population is black.
0:35.8	What have you been looking at?
0:37.2	And why do you think it's so important to look at this through the prism of race?
0:40.8	Well, one we have to understand the full magnitude of the impact on this virus in our
0:45.3	city.
0:46.3	So as we started to see these numbers, we took a couple of steps.
0:49.6	Number one, we mandated that all providers who were doing testing provide demographic
0:54.8	information.
0:55.9	We were seeing about a quarter of the providers telling us that they were testing, telling
0:59.8	us the test results, but not including the race and that ethnicity of information, which
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