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Half of Low Income Communities Have No ICU Beds. Why?

A new study shows Black and Latinx Americans are twice as likely to test positive for COVID-19 as white people. Global Health expert George Aumoithe recently explored the pandemic's racial disparities in a Washington Post article titled “The racist history that explains why some communities don’t have enough ICU beds.” He speaks with Michel Martin about the history of healthcare policy in the U.S.

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