Life & Death in the Bronx

The FRONTLINE Dispatch

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🗓️ 7 June 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

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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0:26.8	They're saying on the news that the rate of people passing from this is
0:29.5	black people and Hispanic people.
0:31.5	It's where we live at.
0:34.8	You don't see this upstate, upstate other places.
0:38.0	People are coming out of the hospital.
0:40.0	Downtown, people are coming out of the hospital.
0:42.3	In the Bronx, not so much.
0:44.4	They got to bring trucks to put bodies in.
0:46.4	So there's something to that.
0:48.4	Around the country, the coronavirus is exposed
0:51.0	in trench racial disparities.
0:53.3	African-American residents are dying
0:55.4	in nearly six times the rate of white residents in Chicago.
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