Stepping Out Of The Shadow Of 'Killer King'

Code Switch

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🗓️ 27 January 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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For decades, residents of Compton and Watts in South Los Angeles had to rely on one particularly troubled hospital for their medical care. A new state-of-the-art hospital replaced it, but faced many of the same challenges: too few beds, too many patients who need serious help, not enough money. Then came the coronavirus.

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0:00.0	I'm Jean-Demby.
0:01.0	I'm Shireen Marisol Maraji and this is Code Switch.
0:05.0	From MPR.
0:07.0	Today, there were 98 deaths in the city of Los Angeles.
0:10.4	218 across our county.
0:12.6	Yesterday, we had 259 deaths.
0:16.4	That's one more than all the homicides in 2019 in LA City combined.
0:20.9	In a single day, equal to a year of homicides.
0:25.1	Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti in an address on January 7th, 2021, talking about deaths
0:31.2	from COVID.
0:32.8	And he went over those horrific numbers a few minutes into his speech because he spent
0:36.9	the first part talking about the mob violence at the Capitol that went down just the day
0:41.7	before.
0:42.7	Because over the last month, much of our collective attention has been focused on right-wing mob
0:47.2	violence and the impeachment and the beginning of a new presidential administration.
0:52.1	While the while, COVID-19 has been devastating communities across the country.
0:57.8	Remember, it took 12 weeks for the number of COVID deaths in the U.S. to go from 200,000
1:03.5	to 300,000 people.
1:05.7	But it only took about five weeks for the death toll to jump from 300,000 to 400,000 people.
1:12.6	And things here in Los Angeles have been absolutely horrible.
1:16.9	We are not nor will we ever become accustomed to these numbers as normal.
1:22.8	Nor will I ever accept them as something we should just live with.
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