At the Orlando Regional Medical Center, where victims of the Pulse shooting were treated, there were only six interpreters available for Spanish speakers.

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The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 8, 2020

Irwin Redlener, professor of pediatrics and director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University, co-founder of the Children's Health Fund, and the author of The Future of Us: What the Dreams of Children Mean for Twenty-First-Century America (Columbia University Press, 2017), talks about the latest on the COVID-19 pandemic and issues of testing, medical volunteers and disparities in outcomes by sex, age, income and race.

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