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Health expert: Police violence against black people is a “”pandemic

Footage of George Floyd dying on a Minneapolis street is just one of many videos showing black people killed by officers on duty. An op-ed in the Washington Post makes the argument that “Police Killing Black People is a Pandemic, Too.” The author, Osagie K. Obasogie, is a professor of bioethics at the University of California at Berkeley, and he joins CBSN to explain why state violence should also be considered a public health crisis. Source

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U.S. hits 2 million coronavirus cases

The United States has now surpassed 2 million confirmed cases of coronavirus. CBS News correspondent Laura Podesta reports on the latest, and Dr. Neeta Ogden joins CBSN to discuss where the new cases are increasing and why some hospital systems say they are dangerously close to capacity. Source

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