COVID News Update: Looking At The Data; Meet the Candidate: Amy Kennedy; What Does BIPOC Mean And Who Does It Serve?; Your Anecdotal Census

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jul 22, 2020

Coming up on today's show:

  • Dr. Eric Topol, director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute and executive VP & professor of molecular medicine at Scripps Research, talks about what we now know about Covid-19 statistics, what it really means for death rates, child-to-adult transmission and mask effectiveness.
  • Amy Kennedy, Democratic candidate for Congress in New Jersey's 2nd district, beat out the Democratic establishment's preferred candidate, and will now take on Rep. Jeff Van Drew (now a Republican) in the general election. She talks about her run for Congress and the issues that matter to voters in her South Jersey district.
  •  Jonathan D. Rosa, sociocultural and linguistic anthropologist at Stanford University, who researches language and race, talks about and answers questions on what BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, people of color) means, who it serves, where it comes from and how it affects our society, presently and in our future.
  • Listeners call to share how they are thinking about their immigration status amid the global pandemic, national political protests and facing a potential four more years of the Trump administration and Amina Srna, associate producer for The Brian Lehrer Show, joins to discuss how immigration and the 2020 Census intersect.

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