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Ed Yong On How America's Inequality Made Us More Vulnerable to COVID-19 | Code Switch
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24:28Now PlayingABOUT THIS EPISODE - “The United States' Pre-Existing Conditions” - How was the richest and most powerful country in the world laid low by a virus only nanometers in size? Ed Yong, a science reporter for The Atlantic, says it's the inequities that have been with us for generations that made our body politic such opportunistic targets.
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