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Why protecting the 'viral underclass' can keep us all healthy

Why protecting the 'viral underclass' can keep us all healthy

It's Been a Minute vor 4 Jahren

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After years of covering HIV and AIDS, journalist Steven Thrasher
knew that the hardest hit communities were almost always the
poorest and most marginalized ones. Then COVID-19 struck, and he
saw that the same groups of people were suffering the most.

In his new book The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When
Inequality and Disease Collide, Thrasher explores how this pattern
plays out in communities around the world. Guest host Tracie Hunte
talks to him about the ways that systemic oppression puts
marginalized people at greater risk of infection for all diseases –
and also blames them for transmission.

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