Left: U.S. Representative, Joaquin Castro. Right: Dr. Octavio N. Martinez Jr.
It is fashionable to say that coronavirus doesn’t discriminate, but this may be misleading. In fact, there is compelling data suggesting that the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting some communities harder than others. In state after state, there is evidence that this pandemic is having a disproportionate effect on certain communities, on the economically precarious, and other populations such as the homeless.
These findings may just be the tip of the iceberg. In this episode, U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro of San Antonio, representing Texas’s 20th congressional district, and Dr. Octavio N. Martinez, Jr., executive director of the Hogg Foundation, join us from their respective worlds of politics and philanthropy to discuss the deep social implications of coronavirus through a health equity lens.
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