As the number of infections and deaths related to COVID-19 continue to rise in the United States, evidence is mounting of a disproportionate impact on people of color.  To discuss the racial disparities in the trajectory of the pandemic, Dr. Sam Chandan is joined by Dr. Rashawn Ray, David M. Rubenstein Fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution and Associate Professor and Executive Director of the Lab for Applied Social Science Research at the University of Maryland, College Park. Previously, Dr. Ray was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. The research and policy recommendations discussed during this episode can be found at https://www.brookings.edu/experts/rashawn-ray/. 

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