Coronavirus Conversations: How the coronavirus crisis has exposed entrenched health inequities

The WorldJuly 27, 2020

A large crowd of people are shown with a women featured in the center of the photograph holding a sign that reads, racism kills, mentally. physically. globally. — People take part in a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Berlin, July 18, 2020.
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The coronavirus pandemic has exposed entrenched health inequities for communities of color in the US and around the globe. As part of our regular series discussing the pandemic and as a special podcast in The World’s feed, reporter Elana Gordon moderated a conversation with Nancy Krieger from Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Krieger recently co-authored an analysis confirming the extent of such disparities.

Watch and listen to more of The World’s Coronavirus Conversations here.

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