A few episodes back right about as COVID-19 was hitting the US, I introduced you to Dr.

Gail Christopher.

We talked about the racial disparities that were likely to emerge in the course of this epidemic,

and at the time there wasn't a lot of data on this question.

She and many others who pay attention to racial justice, they were clamoring for more information.

Well, the data is end.

Now to that growing and disturbing trend,

the disproportionate impact COVID-19 is having

on communities of color.

An associated press analysis of nearly 3,300 coronavirus patients who died found 42% of them were African-American.

Every place that's reporting racial data is reporting racial disparities in terms of

African-Americans in particular having a higher infection rate and having a higher death rate.

Listen, I'll admit, it feels good to think about viruses and diseases as these great equalizers.

But they're just not.

And as COVID-19's awful demographic path has become visible, it has just confirmed everything

we already knew about race and health care.

You know, it always seems that the poorest people pay the highest price. Why is that?

In this episode we are going to answer Governor Cuomo's question. But I'll tell you now,

the answer isn't poverty, at least not poverty alone.

Nor is it the personal choices black people make, or even really the high incidence of

conditions like diabetes and heart disease, at least not those things alone.

There's actually decades worth of research explaining why black people in particular

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