Today on Sojourner Truth:

The latest news on the coronavirus and its impact. Our guest is Dr. David Himmelstein, a Distinguished Professor of Public Health at the City University of New York, a lecturer in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a primary care doctor in The Bronx. Dr. Himmelstein co-founded Physicians for a National Health Program, a group whose 23,000 members advocate for Medicare for All.

As the pandemic continues its march across the globe, starting today, South Africa will begin a 21-day lockdown. We speak with Mazibuko Jara, the Deputy Director of the Tshisimani Centre for Activist Education in Capetown, South Africa.

For our weekly Earth Watch, Dr. Felicia Keesing joins us to discuss the consequences of interactions among species, particularly as biodiversity declines. Some warn that the coronavirus is a warning shot from nature. Dr. Keesing, Distinguished Professor of the Sciences at Bard College in New York, received her Ph.D. in biology from the University of California at Berkeley. She studies the consequences of interactions among species, particularly as biodiversity declines. In Kenya, where she has been working for almost 25 years, she has investigated how savanna communities respond to the disappearance of large animals such as elephants and zebras. In the U.S., she studies how interactions among species influence disease risk for humans, particularly for Lyme disease and the emerging diseases anaplasmosis and babesiosis.