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Response and Recovery: Laura Spinney

Recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic and achieving herd immunity won’t be possible, Laura Spinney argues, unless we prioritize immigrant communities.

This week Ali talks to Laura, a science journalist and author of Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World, about why protecting ourselves is impossible without protecting the most vulnerable.

A transcript of this episode is available here. 

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