Episode Details

In this episode of Clinical Problem Solvers: Anti-Racism in Medicine, we sit down with Ed Yong, an award-winning journalist and science writer with The Atlantic, to discuss the structural inequities amplified by COVID-19 as well as the social concerns associated with the impending/present second wave of the pandemic.

Learning Objectives

After listening to this episode listeners will be able to…

1. Understand the trajectory of the COVID-19 pandemic’s unique impact on communities of color in the United States and its tie to historical discrimination and structural inequities
2. Describe the racialized and politicized national response to COVID-19
3. Recognize the crucial role that social interventions can and could have played in decreasing the burden of COVID-19

Credits

• Written and produced by: Dereck Paul, MS, Utibe R. Essien, MD, MPH, Rohan Khazanchi, LaShyra Nolen, Michelle Ogunwole, MD, Naomi Fields, Chioma Onuoha, and Jazzmin Williams
• Hosts: Dereck Paul, MS, Utibe R. Essien, MD, MPH
• Infographic: Creative Edge Design
• Guests: Ed Yong staff writer at The Atlantic (@edyong209)

Clinical Problem Solvers: Anti-Racism in Medicine

Show Notes – Episode 3: Structural Inequities and the Pandemic’s Winter Surge

December 3rd, 2020

By: Chioma Onuoha

Timestamps

00:00 Music/Intro

00:20 Mission and Vision

00:32 Introduction of Ed Yong

02:00 Disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on minority communities

04:00 Racism in the national/policy response to COVID-19

07:00 Health Care Worker Fatigue

09:30 Grief and the Unique Frustrations of Health Care Workers of Color

11:30 The “Chinese” Virus and the history of the pandemic

14:00 Administrative Blame Shifting

17:00 How Could This Have Been Prevented?

20:00 COVID-19 and indigenous populations

Takeaways

1. Social Interventions are Valuable

Currently in the COVID-19 pandemic, social interventions are the only in