Tributes to lost love ones adorn a fence outside Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery where many victims of COVID-19 are buried, Thursday, May 28, 2020 in New York.

30 Issues: The Disparate Impact of COVID-19

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 28, 2020

Mary Bassett, director of the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University, as well as professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, talks about how to fight the disparate impact in who gets sick, and who dies, from COVID-19.

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