Life & Death in the Bronx

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🗓️ 17 May 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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In the Bronx, as the coronavirus is disproportionately killing black and Latino people, COVID-19 is swelling the ranks of the dead — and also upending how loved ones grieve. Reporter Anjali Tsui goes inside a family-owned funeral home in the NYC borough to discover the outbreak's toll on the community. As one grieving woman reflects, "When people die, they need to be celebrated and there is no celebration of life right now. It’s like people are just disappearing."

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0:00.0	They're saying on the news that the rate of people passing from this is black people and Hispanic people.
0:04.4	We live at it.
0:08.2	You don't see this upstate, upstate other places, people are coming out of the hospital.
0:12.8	Downtown people are coming out of the hospital.
0:15.6	In the Bronx, not so much.
0:17.6	They got to bring trucks to put bodies in.
0:19.6	So there's something to that.
0:21.6	Around the country, the coronavirus is exposed in trench-retial disparities.
0:26.6	African-American residents are dying in nearly six times the rate of white residents in Chicago.
0:32.2	Disturbingly, this information is going to show you this slightly more than 70% of all the deaths in Louisiana or the African-American.
0:39.8	The CDC says Latinos represent more than 27% of COVID deaths in hot spots, even though they are just 18% of the population.
0:49.4	In New York City, the coronavirus is killing black and Hispanic people at twice the rate of white people.
0:56.2	Nowhere is this more apparent than in the Bronx.
0:59.4	Even before the pandemic, Bronx residents had a low-relife expectancy compared to the rest of New York City.
1:05.8	And they were more prone to conditions that put them at a higher risk of death if infected with the coronavirus.
1:11.8	That's reporter Angelie Choi.
1:13.8	She lives in New York City and over the past several weeks, she's been reporting in the Bronx from a place where the mounting death toll has been deeply felt.
1:21.8	A family-run funeral home.
1:23.8	I'm Reenie Aronson, executive producer of Frontline and this is the Frontline Dispatch.
1:29.8	The Frontline Dispatch is made possible by the Abrams Foundation, committed to excellence in journalism, and by the WGBH Catalyst Fund.
1:40.6	Support for the Frontline Dispatch also comes from the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center.
1:46.2	Early detection is key to catching and treating many cancers.
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