A Divided America Feeds the Crisis

Prognosis: Breakthrough

• Episode: A Divided America Feeds the Crisis
• Website: Prognosis: Breakthrough
• Feed URL: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/BLM8995439705
• Duration: 00:16:45
• Published: 2020-07-03 18:00

The U.S. is home to the highest number of Covid-19 cases—2.6 million and counting—and the most deaths. The reasons for that are at least, in part, very American ones: Politicized science, a fragmented media landscape, and inequality. Executive Editor Brian Bremner reflects on how decades of political division have made the country a coronavirus superpower in the worst way--an outcome that was entirely avoidable.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com