Lawsuit Forces Release of Government Data On Racial Inequity Of Coronavirus
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🗓️ 6 July 2020
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Summary
The mayor of Houston says ICU beds are starting to fill up and the city has two weeks to get things under control.
The New York Times sued the federal government to obtain data collected by the CDC that reveals more information about how the virus has affected people of color in the United States. The numbers revealed Latinx and Black people are three times as likely to become infected as white people.
The virus is spreading fast in Florida. To reach the hardest hit communities, public health workers in Miami are going door to door in Latinx neighborhoods with supplies and information.
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| 0:00.0 | Today, the mayor of Miami |
| 0:02.0 | said indoor dining has to stop |
| 0:05.0 | again. And gyms and fitness |
| 0:08.0 | centers are reclosing too. |
| 0:10.0 | In Houston, mayor Sylvester |
| 0:12.0 | Turner told CBS Sunday that I |
| 0:14.0 | see you beds are filling up. |
| 0:16.0 | In fact, if we don't get our |
| 0:18.0 | hands around this virus quickly |
| 0:20.0 | in about two weeks, |
| 0:22.0 | our hospital system could be |
| 0:24.0 | in serious, serious trouble. |
| 0:26.0 | And in Phoenix hospitals are |
| 0:28.0 | there. We are really in a bad |
| 0:30.0 | situation where we need more |
| 0:32.0 | resources for our medical system |
| 0:34.0 | and help with testing. |
| 0:36.0 | Mayor Kate Gallego told NPR |
| 0:38.0 | that over the weekend, some |
| 0:40.0 | people in Phoenix waited hours |
| 0:42.0 | for a test. Some of them |
| 0:44.0 | running out of gas in 110 |
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