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How Historic Health Inequities Are Tied To COVID Impact In South LA

By AirTalk Staff
Published Jan 21, 2021
A nurse dons personal protective equipment (PPE) to attend to a patients in a Covid-19 intensive care unit (ICU) at Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) Community Hospital on January 6, 2021 in the Willowbrook neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. - Deep within a South Los Angeles hospital, a row of elderly Hispanic men in induced comas lay hooked up to ventilators, while nurses clad in spacesuit-looking respirators checked their bleeping monitors in the eerie silence. The intensive care unit in one of the city's poorest districts is well accustomed to death, but with Los Angeles now at the heart of the United States' Covid pandemic, medics say they have never seen anything on this scale. (Photo by Patrick T. FALLON / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)
A nurse dons personal protective equipment (PPE) to attend to a patients in a Covid-19 intensive care unit (ICU) at Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) Community Hospital on January 6, 2021 in the Willowbrook neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.
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How Historic Health Inequities Are Tied To COVID Impact In South LA

COVID-19 has disproportionately impacted communities of color, both in Southern California and nationally, and the reasons are complex and rooted in historic inequities. 

Dr. Elaine Batchlor, CEO of the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital in South Los Angeles has experienced a lot of these disparities firsthand. 

We sit down with Dr. Batchlor to dig into the topic.  

Guest: 

Elaine Batchlor M.D., CEO of Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital in South Los Angeles