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They marched by the tens of thousands in Washington, D.C. in New York, in Chicago,

and across the country. Demonstrators, largely peaceful,

took to the streets this weekend to protest the death of George Floyd,

and what many see is the systematic racism that it signifies.

And while the protests undoubtedly sent a powerful message about the depths of anger and despair,

among millions of African-Americans and persons of color, it also may have sent another message,

about the steady collapse of social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Will the past week of protests cause a spike in the numbers of those infected and dying from

the disease? And how do public health experts persuade an increasingly restless public

from opening up their businesses or going to the beach or attending church services

when they see so many protesters congregating in large numbers and walking side-by-side

on crowded streets? We'll discuss with Scott Gottlieb, the former FDA Commissioner

and the President Trump, and Kavita Patel, a former Obama administration public health official

and Yahoo News contributor on this episode of Skull Duggery.

Because people have got to know whether or not they're presidents of crop,

well I'm not a crop. I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostage.

My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence

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