The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted wide disparities in health equity and shown the damage that misinformation can do. Soledad O’Brien talks with Shanice Hudson, chair of the Hood Medicine Initiative, about how she and a group of other MIT alums are using the power of social media, radio and a growing network of researchers to get good science information to BIPOC communities.
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