As someone who listens to a fair amount of NPR in the car, I can tell you that if there’s a race, sex, gender, or immigration angle to any story, NPR is going to find it and run with it. I haven’t been listening to any NPR since the lockdown began, because with nowhere to go, I’m never in my car. I wasn’t surprised, though, when a reader sent me a link to the interview NPR’s David Greene did with Sen. Bill Cassidy, the Louisiana Republican, on the subject of why a wildly disproportionate number of black Louisianans dead of Covid-19. Blacks make up 32 percent of the state’s population, but a whopping 70 percent of coronavirus deaths. Why?
Sen. Cassidy, who is a physician with extensive experience working in the state’s public hospital system, tried to explain to Greene.
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