Access Denied: How Race Shapes the Impacts of Long-Haul COVID

Sandhya Kajeepeta (NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund), Access Denied: How Race Shapes the Impacts of Long-Haul COVID (Thurgood Marshall Inst. Soc. Sci. Rev. Rsch. Paper) (forthcoming 2024):

On this episode of Justice Above All, host Dr. Sandhya Kajeepeta walks listeners through how race shapes the experience of contracting and recovering from long-haul COVID. Featuring former Washington D.C. Public Health Commissioner Dr. Reed Tuckson, Yale School of Medicine Assistant Professor and epidemiologist Dr. Carol Oladele, and award-winning former teacher, activist and long-COVID patient Chimére Smith, this episode explores how pre-existing disparities are threatening Black communities' risk of long COVID and what this means for the future of public health and economic stability.