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The latest South Carolina Public Radio News reports on the spread of the coronavirus and efforts to fight it.

COVID-19 and Health Disparities in SC

Dr. Marvella Ford
Bobbi Connor/MUSC

This week Bobbi Conner talks with Dr. Marvella Ford about increased mortality in the SC African American population from COVID-19. Dr. Ford is a professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences and she’s the Associate Director of Population Sciences and Cancer Disparities at Hollings Cancer Center at MUSC.

Bobbi Conner has been producing and hosting public radio programs for over 30 years. She was the longtime host of the national Parents Journal public radio program. Conner has lived in the Charleston area for over twenty years.