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How COVID-19 Is Affecting Latino Children in California, 'Wear a Mask' Campaign, On The Lot
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Jul 8, 2020
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How COVID-19 Is Affecting Latino Children in California, 'Wear a Mask' Campaign, On The Lot

How Latino children are being affected by COVID-19, how a marketing blitz could get Americans to wear masks and what's happening at the box office.

Medical workers at Kaiser Permanente French Campus test a patient for the coronavirus disease COVID-19 at a drive-through testing facility in San Francisco on Thursday.
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Coronavirus: Latino Children

What we know about the virus is this: it is highly transmissible - we are all capable of coming down with COVID-19, but not all of us are ...and communities of color are being hit the hardest, especially Latinos. In California, Latinos account for more than half of California's cases and 42% of the deaths, despite being only 36% of the population. And that includes many children.

Guest

  • Elizabeth Aguilera, Cal Matters Reporter 

Mask Campaign

To get more people wearing face masks, perhaps it requires a public awareness campaign. Take Two talks about how a marketing blitz could get Americans to ignore politics and take masks seriously. 

Guest:

  • Connie Pechmann, UC-Irvine marketing professor

Coronavirus Enforcement Guidelines

As the number of COVID-19 cases rise, the L.A. County Board of Supervisors is asking the County Department of Public Health to come up with a list of guidelines that would force businesses to comply with safety guidelines during the pandemic. 

Guest:

  • L.A. County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl

On The Lot

It's summer, but for the first time in YEARS, there are no blockbusters coming to a theater near you. What's a summer without any box office going to do to the industry?

Guest:

  • Rebecca Keegan, Senior film editor at The Hollywood Reporter

FYC Horn SAG

And there's this additional piece of Hollywood news today...We know that the pandemic has shut down nearly all movie and TV production but now a conflict in the actors union could propose an additional obstacle in getting back to work.

Nick Quah

Each week Nick Quah, host of the LAist Studios podcast about podcasting Servant Of Pod joins us on Take Two. This week he updates us on the big news that Sirius XM is looking to buy Stitcher and he gives us a preview of his new episode that looks at the risk of big money entering the pod space.