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Poverty, Access And The Unequal Toll Of The Pandemic

To stop the spread of Coronavirus, it takes not only medical interventions but social and economic ones. Amy Maxmen is a science journalist for Nature, and she joins host Krys Boyd to talk about social determinants of health – a concept that’s been around for 150 years – and why it’s taken a pandemic to really focus on the health outcomes of the most vulnerable. Her article is called “Inequality’s Deadly Toll.”