Why COVID-19 Hits Black America Hardest
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4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | A quick warning here at the top, we play a little bit of tape with some swearing in it. |
| 0:05.1 | So you've been warned. |
| 0:07.0 | I want you to close your eyes and try to picture the face of the coronavirus. |
| 0:16.5 | Who do you see? |
| 0:19.2 | Maybe you see Andrew Cuomo giving a press conference, or Tom Hanks in quarantine. |
| 0:25.1 | Maybe you're thinking about Boris Johnson stuck in that ICU in London. |
| 0:29.9 | Akila Johnson from Over at ProPublica. |
| 0:32.6 | She says this virus is moving so fast that the picture you've gotten your head might be |
| 0:38.0 | out of date. |
| 0:39.0 | One of the things that public health experts are constantly bringing up is that we're |
| 0:44.1 | always two weeks behind. |
| 0:50.9 | We are getting ready to, and the data is showing us that the face of COVID, I don't want to |
| 0:57.4 | say is changing, but is getting ready to look very different as a result of that 14-day delay. |
| 1:04.0 | This lag time, it's the result of testing delays, but also the inevitable weeks of waiting, |
| 1:10.2 | as symptoms wax and wane. |
| 1:12.9 | For a reporter, uncovering the face of the coronavirus feels a little like watching |
| 1:17.4 | film develop in a dark room. |
| 1:20.2 | Most we learned that elderly were at risk, but children seem to be safer. |
| 1:26.2 | Then it seemed like men were getting sicker than women. |
| 1:30.8 | The question that I think is driving me as a reporter, and I think that is largely driving |
| 1:37.9 | a lot of us, is how do we get closer to the ground? |
| 1:41.1 | The stories from people in power tend to be easier to access. |
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