Covid-19 isn't the only health crisis threatening our nation right now. CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta talks to epidemiologist Dr. Camara Jones about the serious impact of racism on public health. Jones is senior fellow at the Satcher Health Leadership Institute and the Cardiovascular Research Institute at the Morehouse School of Medicine. She also shares important guidance for protesters to help reduce the spread of coronavirus.
You can listen on your favorite podcast app, or read the transcript below.Dr. Sanjay Gupta: These are the sounds of protest. For the past 10 days, people across the country have been demanding justice for the police killing of George Floyd. And all of this in the midst of a pandemic. Hundreds of thousands of people, shoulder to shoulder, marching through the streets to fight a different — but no less serious — public health issue. Read MoreThe intersection between race and health has been Dr.
Do you worry that it'll manifest in mental health, you know, sort of toll or, or, you know, people get sick, they start to feel sick, they, they go home, they get somebody else sick within their within their household or whatever. How do you, how would you talk to somebody at that point? It's a balance. Life is a balance. Life is risk-reward. Jones: I would say that, when you watch geese flying, flying north or flying south, you see them flying in a"v" formation.
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