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A 'risk-based decision' about protesting during a pandemic

Clip: 6/8/2020 | 6m 20sVideo has Closed Captions

With mass protests over systemic racism, people trade 1 health risk for another

Nationwide protests against police violence toward black Americans have raised concerns about the potential spread of coronavirus. If people are not social distancing and are gathering in the thousands, are they exposing themselves to greater risk for COVID-19? And how should that risk be weighed? Lisa Desjardins talks to Dr. Georges Benjamin of the American Public Health Association.

06/08/2020

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