COVID Roulette: Frontline Workers Forced to Choose Income Over Health
Pandemic Nation
As pandemic-striken businesses return to life, employees face medical risks and uncertainty. Mark Kreidler speaks to Elvia Martinez, who works at LAX’s Panda Express.
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Health Care Workers Battle in COVID’s Dangerous Trenches
Pandemic Nation
What happens when pandemic fighters are at risk themselves with preexisting medical conditions?
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Closing a Hospital During a Pandemic
Pandemic Nation
Mark Kreidler speaks to Shenita Anderson, a nurse at Olympia Medical Center, a soon to be shuttered hospital in Los Angeles.
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One Patient at a Time
Pandemic Nation
Mark Kreidler speaks with Dr. Coley King, director of homeless health care at Venice Family Clinic.
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Chasing The Vaccine: Episode 5
Pandemic Nation
She has heard no plan for a federal relief package that might somehow lessen her burden. And, hotel worker Liliana Hernandez says, the whole notion of a vaccine getting the country back on track might be way too late for her and her colleagues. In a state of inequity, relief remains elusive.
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Chasing the Vaccine: Episode 4
Pandemic Nation
While 57% of Californians in a recent Public Policy Institute poll said they would either definitely or probably take the vaccine, the figure plummets to 29% among Black respondents. Systemic and pervasive racism lies at the root of that deep distrust of the system, says our guest, Michelle Burton of the Los Angeles-based Community Health Councils.
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Chasing the Vaccine: Episode 3
Pandemic Nation
Mark Kreidler speaks with Erin McIntosh, a rapid-response nurse in Riverside, about the burnout plaguing health care workers in the final stretch of the pandemic.
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Chasing the Vaccine: Episode 2
Pandemic Nation
CommuniCare's CEO explains how community clinics will receive and administer the vaccine to patients who don't often see doctors.
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Chasing The Vaccine: Episode 1
Pandemic Nation
Who gets the coronavirus vaccine first -- and who decides this? Mark Kreidler talks with California health care advocate Anthony Wright.
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No Reinforcements
Pandemic Nation
Mark Kreidler speaks to Jenny Wong-Swanson, a Kaiser Permanente nurse in Woodland Hills, about the pandemic’s explosion.
info_outlineMark Kreidler speaks to Eileen Saltman, a worker at Reem’s California, a restaurant and bakery in Oakland.