The Sum of Us are Sick with Heather McGhee

America Dissected

Incision Media LLC

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.6 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Public health requires us to believe that there is “a public” above and beyond ourselves as individuals. But who belongs to that public may matter even more for what we’re willing to do provide that public. In her book “The Sum of Us,” author and organizer Heather McGhee shows how racism has destroyed collective efforts–from swimming pools to insurance pools–in America. She joins Abdul to talk about what that means for public health and the pandemic. You can find "The Sum of Us," now in paperback, wherever you shop for books. For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/americadissected.

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0:00.0	Democratic governors from around the country have decided to end mask mandates and vaccine
0:11.2	verification signaling a new approach to the pandemic.
0:14.4	The FDA delays its judgment on vaccines for children under five, electing to wait for
0:18.2	data about the safety and efficacy of a third dose.
0:21.2	In Iowa, nearly 60% of deer, yes, deer, are infected with COVID-19.
0:25.7	That may have startling implications for the future of the pandemic.
0:28.9	The Canadian trucker protests, which started over COVID restrictions, continues to rock
0:32.6	Ottawa as similar protests pop up around the globe.
0:35.4	This is America Dissected.
0:36.4	I'm your host, Dr. Abdul Alseid.
0:44.0	If you spend time thinking about health care or public health, chances are you've heard
0:47.6	the term, the social determinants of health.
0:49.8	It's one of those terms that's so commonplace in our space that we sometimes forget what
0:53.7	it actually means.
0:55.0	It's usually invoked to explain why black or brown folks are more likely to suffer diseases
0:58.9	in the first place, more likely to suffer them worse when they do, and more likely to
1:02.4	die at an early age because of them.
1:04.6	The idea is that disease and death don't happen at random.
1:07.6	Rather, they're determined based on the social characteristics of individuals like race,
1:11.5	education, income, wealth, and gender.
1:14.0	It's an idea that is descriptively true and packs a lot of problematic implications
1:18.0	about why it's true.
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