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America Dissected

Incision Media LLC

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.6 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Recently the CDC released a study that revealed that while African Americans make up only 13% of the population of the United States, they were 30% of the patients that were dealing with COVID-19. Abdul talks to LaMar Hasbrouck, a public health physician and former director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, about racial disparities in health. Later he connects with Corey McPherson, an old friend who shares his family's experience with the virus.

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0:00.0	On Sunday, the 40,000th American past of COVID-19, less than three months after the first
0:15.8	known case hit the US.
0:18.4	COVID-19 gets political, excuse me.
0:20.8	COVID-19 gets even more political, as hundreds protest day at home orders.
0:25.5	This is America Dissected, and I'm your host, Dr. Abdul-Elsaid.
0:39.1	By now you probably know the gist.
0:40.7	We talk to someone who shares a personal experience, then I break it down, then we speak with
0:45.0	an expert.
0:46.2	This time though, I want to flip it around a little.
0:48.4	We're going to chat with an expert, and then a friend of mine who will help us understand
0:52.1	how the subject of today's episode plays out in people's lives.
0:56.5	As we've discussed before, the burden of COVID-19 has fallen disproportionately on black and
1:01.0	brown Americans.
1:02.5	It almost feels like the people we've deemed essential, who drive the buses and stock
1:06.3	to grocery shelves and cook to food, society has also deemed expendable.
1:11.8	They are far more likely to be black and brown than far less likely to have health care,
1:15.6	paid sick leave, or stable income.
1:18.8	To break it down more, I reached out to someone who's been thinking about racial disparities
1:22.3	and how to dismantle them for a long time.
1:25.3	Dr. Lamar Hasbrooke is a public health physician, past state and local health official, and also
1:31.6	formerly the executive director and CEO of the National Association of City and County
1:36.2	Health Officials.
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