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While cit­i­zens take to the streets to protest racist vio­lence, the pan­dem­ic has its own bru­tal inequities. Black, Lati­no, and Native Amer­i­can peo­ple are bear­ing the brunt of COVID ill­ness and death. We look at the mul­ti­tude of fac­tors that con­tribute to this dis­par­i­ty, most of which exist­ed long before the pan­dem­ic. Also, how the Cheyenne Riv­er Sioux tribe main­tained their coro­n­avirus safe­guards in defi­ance of the South Dako­ta gov­er­nor. And, the bio­log­i­cal rea­sons why we cat­e­go­rize one anoth­er by skin color.

The COVID Track­ing Project’s COVID Racial Data Tracker

Guests:

Mar­cel­la Nunez Smith – Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor of Med­i­cine and of Epi­demi­ol­o­gy, Yale School of Med­i­cine, Direc­tor, Equi­ty Research and Inno­va­tion Center

Utibe Essien – Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor of Med­i­cine, Uni­ver­si­ty of Pitts­burgh School of Med­i­cine, and a Core Inves­ti­ga­tor, Cen­ter for Health Equi­ty Research and Pro­mo­tion, VA Pitts­burgh Health­care System

Nina Jablon­s­ki – Anthro­pol­o­gist, pale­o­bi­ol­o­gist at Penn­syl­va­nia State Uni­ver­si­ty and author of, Skin: A Nat­ur­al His­to­ry,” and Liv­ing Col­or: the Bio­log­i­cal and Social Mean­ing of Skin Color.” 

Robert Sapol­sky – Pro­fes­sor of neu­ro­science at Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty, and author of Behave: The Biol­o­gy of Humans at Our Best and Worst.”

Harold Fra­zier – Chair­man of the Cheyenne Riv­er Sioux tribe, South Dako­ta. The Cheyenne Riv­er Sioux Reser­va­tion COVID check­point on High­way 212 is fea­tured in an arti­cle on Indi​anz​.com.