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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

L.A.’s Alarming Latino Mortality Rate

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate Podcasts

News, News Commentary, Daily News

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

People may want to throw their masks in the trash, but in communities with the highest COVID-19 mortality rates, the pandemic is not over. Guest: Dr. Don Garcia, medical director at Clínica Romero in Los Angeles.  If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods of time.

0:10.0

Hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is a sweaty armpit

0:15.0

because your wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamps and heath and you get to the top

0:20.0

and you're like, and then you can see the breath but then your nose is still freezing to touch.

0:25.0

Joy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.

0:30.0

Sam Mendes presents Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, an audible original drama.

0:36.0

The young gentleman's name would be Oliver. Oliver Twist.

0:41.0

With Brian Cox as Fagin.

0:43.0

What have you seen? Street boy.

0:45.0

Nicola Cochlan as Nancy and Daniel Callugia as Bill Sykes.

0:50.0

Look at me like a hello to my lawyer.

0:52.0

With original music by Dan Gillespie Cells, subscription required see audible.co.uk for terms.

1:07.0

Dr. Don Garcia has a way of describing COVID's impact on Latino communities.

1:13.0

It's not subtle. He calls it biologic genocide.

1:17.0

That is a loss of the geneful of fertilization.

1:22.0

Somebody take issue with your use of the word genocide that say,

1:26.0

well, the pandemic is affecting everyone. It's neutral.

1:31.0

Well, it's not neutral to me because I'm in the eye of the fire.

1:38.0

Where Dr. Garcia is more precisely is Clinica Romero.

1:44.0

It's a health center in Los Angeles, which is a city that's seen its Latino population ravaged over the course of the pandemic.

1:53.0

It would be neutral if every community was equally affected or everyone's homes would be our burning.

2:01.0

But that's not the case. The homes or the families of the west side are not being burned down the way they're being burned down in oil-highly seasonal sandalists, people, union, west late.

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