Life as a black American in a pandemic

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🗓️ 10 April 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Robert Samuels reports on the stark disparities in how covid-19 affects black Americans. Tracy Jan examines how wearing a face mask in public is different for black men. And Jordan-Marie Smith navigates the politics of hair during a pandemic.

The coronavirus is ravaging black communities. One Milwaukee neighborhood is trying to fight back.

As the nation is told to wear masks, how black Americans are weighing the risks of racial profiling.

The underlying meaning behind the care of black men and women’s hair during a pandemic.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:05.0	Hey, it's Ross Helderman from the Post, Paulie.
0:08.0	How are you?
0:09.0	He there, it's Simon from the Post.
0:11.0	Hey, it's Dave Farron from the Post.
0:12.0	Have you got a seat?
0:13.0	This is Post Reports.
0:15.0	I am Martin Powers.
0:16.0	It's Friday, April 10th.
0:22.0	Today, the coronavirus is a disproportionate effect on black people.
0:28.0	Why covering your face can be fraught and black hair during a pandemic.
0:35.0	What we're seeing in states that collect information by race is that black people are disproportionately being infected by the virus.
0:46.0	And they're also dying at rates that are considerably higher than whites.
0:53.0	No one knows why for sure, but people are taking a few really good educated guesses.
1:01.0	What we know is that within black communities and African Americans, no matter what their socioeconomic status is,
1:08.0	they do have underlying conditions that are exacerbated by the deadly potential of COVID-19.
1:16.0	We're talking about things like diabetes, asthma, COPD, respiratory infections.
1:22.0	And these underlying conditions are things that make people really susceptible to death when it comes to COVID.
1:29.0	And it's true, black people do have these underlying conditions at a rate that's higher than white Americans.
1:36.0	But that's not the full story.
1:40.0	My name is Robert Samuels and I'm a national reporter for the Washington Post.
1:45.0	And how thorough are the numbers that we're seeing on this?
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