Of battle. None were alleged to have occurred in circumstances in which the intent of the perpetrator was unclear, confused or mistaken. Its alleged that some patrols took the law into their own hands. Rules were broken. Stories concocted, lies told, and prison is killed. The Prime Minister of ethiopia says, Government Troops are close to victory as they fight forces in the region. Aid has begun to arrive at refugee camps in sudan for those who fled the violence. Thousands of crossed the border in the past 2 weeks. My pump aopa said to become the most senior u. S. Diplomat to visit an illegal settlement in the occupied west bank. A secretary of state said settlements can be lawful and proper. He also plans to go to the golan heights. But im out of corona, virus related deaths in the u. S. Has now surpassed a quarter of a 1000000. Infections are also rising with more than a 1000000 cases reported in just the past week alone. Riot police in chile have used water cannon to Disperse Protesters as they march towards the president ial palace. Demonstrators are demanding the resignation of president sebastian pinera. After the crackdown on protests 3 weeks ago, voted in favor of rewriting the constitution. After more than a year of protests. Crowds have been gathering in argentinas capital to support a push by the president that would legalize abortion in the largely catholic country. Similar efforts failed 2 years ago. Those are the headlines and hes going to continue here on aljazeera in about half an hour after the fault lines to buy for me out here in london, people power income to the american state capitalism, uninterrupted. All of these, these divisions of the working class working people, and they keep us from realizing our collective power to make then if you obey the market for 30 years, you begin to believe it has power over your life. Oh, they spent a lot of deftness. A lot of there. I was at the cemetery 4 times in a week. Its been a nightmare for rod. Lets pray, god, we thank you for your goodness and your mercy, and love and care when kopek 19 began spreading across the us and taking lives with it. It was clear that while the virus didnt see color race, it quickly found the divisions that society had already created. People so close to you. Now you say im liable and gone, gone across the country. Black and latino communities have been disproportionately impacted by the virus. And in chicago, one of the most racially segregated cities in the us. The majority of deaths have been in black and latino neighborhoods. The sort of recipe for impact existed at bay, so that when a disease like overhead land and a falls right onto the map of inequality that exist already the disparity that cooper tonight on is one that r. T. Existed in everything from housing to health care to access to food, all covert did was plant itself into the social fogs that preexisted, the pandemic, was a way of making visible to a lot of americans and people around the world. What had been invisible to them, a shame that right for not seen because weve known this for many, many years that weve chosen to look away the covert pandemic is a work of americas true these inequities that this country has refused to address. As we consistently neglect in this episode of fault lines, we look at chicagos great divide that allowed covert to spread as byatts the expiry of before we expire. Dont just exist later. Flourishing lives, and lives it took in the process. She was amazing. She was beautiful. She was the most incredible soul. So know her is to love her. She was so this she was she insane join heaven. Now some days it feels like someone snatched the sun from the sky. You never think that your babies will leave you. Its not supposed to be to the soviets, where when we met nikki, it had been 5 months since her 22 year old daughter, nylon had passed away from kuwait 19. This was my love was my 6 child. She was everybodys favorite. She was the party planning. She was the family d. J. She made up out again. You see this love music . She does love life. He has her face, her personality. I love him to tell me then what happened this spring . It was out of nowhere. The only thing she was battling with was the asthma. Having trouble breathing. She didnt want to go to the hospital because of cold soul. She couldnt take it anymore. So she called it ambulance and they immediately set up an oxygen. And she went to the hospital nearby. At this point, you were not thinking that she had covert, you know, that it, ill, sue waited for a lot of test results to come back. And then she takes me and say, mom, they say i have and my heart beslan us there was sending you to a better hospital. When i now arrived, nicky says her daughter was placed on a ventilator, and that after nationally seeming stable, her condition got worse. She was on a ventilator for 23 days in the 23rd when she was only 20 9 and left behind her 2 year old son eric. When she was in a hospital fighting for her life, he was saying, wheres mommy . Every day. Wheres mommy . Wheres mom . And its like he said all my and he put his they had all much as and he said mommy because we had her cremated and have her here. You ok, sleepy little every day, you turn and you hear somebody else say its somebody else says it is like, you think youre living in a movie. But the pandemic hasnt been a nightmare for every community chekhov though, because its played out along racial lines. As coppa deaths began to rise in the spring, nearly 70 percent of fatalities were black residents, even though theyre only 30 percent of the citys population. And as its continued, its been both the citys black and latino communities that have had the highest infection and death rates. By the end of october, over 3000. 00, people had died in chicago. Black residents were 42 percent of the citys deaths, and latinos were 33 percent. Its an all too familiar story of sort of impact the happens to communities of color, right . When the data began to show who was being impacted most the city formed a task force to address the disproportionate impact of the virus on communities of color. Some of the biggest things that impact and impacted death rates was seniors. It was underlie health conditions. It was lack of access to health care. Those things are deeply racialize, blacks, and latinos are also more likely to be essential workers and exposed to the virus. It is the sort of devastating toll of what it means to continue to live in a very Racialized Society and really see so many of the negative impacts us society continue to fall and people of color. Good morning everybody. Welcome, everyone of you all today were grateful. Have gone for the privilege of being present on this morning to see who we got to with these and in just a while, the granderson that our welcome. Weve been Alive Services all in facebook and going to now its been a little lonely because we were not allowing anybody to call up until im at the bottom of to go in the predominantly black neighborhood where reverend Marshall Hatch lives. The community is still coming to terms with the loss. The pandemic is inflicted. On the reverend himself lost his older sister rhoda to cope at one time his role at last birthday party. My mom, when i was a road was like a and big sister. She was the one that i would actually call just talk just as the reverend was transitioning to Online Services in the spring and the country was shutting down, got sick, was very rapid. We dropped off. She was talking walk into a wiltshire a week later when theyre standing over a good little too heavily sedated or evil going on. I dont know. I just him stay there long. Are the same. Good bye. Sorry. I didnt know she could hear me. 3 days before rooted died. Richard hatch also lost his best friend of 45 years to covet. Larry arabs because of them going to church, but he went to high school. Then we went to college. Did on the go ahead. He was the best man at my wedding. The losses continue to pile up. You know, my next door neighbor live side by side, 20 years. What has been the impact in this community and black, chicago, as you say, of coven, of people already in various states of desperation and stress . You know, so it is really just another layer of stress. I mean, what do you think is behind that . I think its become entirely clear that there is such a thing as structural racism, destitution a racist segregation from race. So us an opportunity with people is just various states of survival. The pressure of racism. I mean, is a very real phenomenon here in chicago. One thing behind the pandemics, racialized impact is the city segregation. Oh, the reverend lives on the west side and 9 lives on the south side of the citys predominantly black communities that have been most impacted by cove it. Meanwhile, the fewest cases have been in the predominately white and wealthy neighborhoods near downtown. This Health Disparity seen included isnt new though. Before the pandemic, the Life Expectancy gap between these neighborhoods was as wide as 17 years. Weve created a society in us, nothing new that has put hop, brown and black on the bottom, the rich on top and the poor on the bottom. And we overlap those categories and the, services that we provide, whether b. , school, housing, health care have all been, or layered in the exact same way that cows of facts in the body. First world had 3rd world conditions and in the subsidy for have traced ups. This the west gulf feel poor. Well as Garfield Park has one of the lowest life, especially the cities in the city, west is one of the Lowest Per Capita income. Its one of the younger communities as well. If youre a 16 year old teenager, young man who lives in garfield are likely africanamerican has a little more than a 5050 chance of living to the age of 65 peoples minds go to violence and gun violence. And certainly gun violence is a problem. But actually, more than 50 percent of the early deaths in that neighborhood have caused by heart disease, diabetes, stroke, hypertension, cancer, dont lose stock, just peoples beliefs, behaviors and biology that determine who live in the united states. But the social and Structural Conditions under which people live living under social conditions with the neighbors arent safe for those not food around where your housing is for ultimately has biological, a fax one of the reasons behind the Life Expectancy gap is a lack of resources, something thats become more acute for vulnerable communities during the pandemic. Best way for us not to die from cold. That is not to get so full people to want to shelter in place. They need resources high. So we provide fresh fruits and vegetables, as well as household supplies. We are truly in the middle of a quality of life, right . Were going to help you, even before the Pandemic Community groups around chicago. Were working to address and draw awareness to the inequalities that have become more urgent now, like access to healthy food, most americans dont worry about if they have a school. Right. Weve heard the term right here, block the grocery store, say thats also that in itself is a health crisis, right . Right . To health inequities, koeppen exposed can be tied to problems like food deserts, as well as pollution and housing, all of which fall along lines of inequality on a map of chicago. Chicago is like, deeply that created the johnson is an artist who lives on the south side of chicago. She examines the impact of the citys historic segregation. This is the man that was shared in the media for this time period. There are still a case. This is a chicago segregation what it looks like, the blue that you see, those are the neighborhoods that are predominantly black, the pink purple ish that you see. Those are the neighborhoods that are predominantly white. And you see overlaps in all of these different yes. Mean projects folded, map looks at the differences between neighborhoods in the cities, north and south sides of the same street, 15 miles apart. One of the starkest differences between the north side and the south side resources and development, the development of new homes, new business, the. Those are the most dramatic differences that ultimately will be other amenities that are also different. Whats behind the difference, a, chicagos historic segregation. And discriminatory housing practice that were really heavily in the 195060 beginning in 1910, millions of africanamericans left the south and its racist jim crow laws for industrial cities in the north like chicago. Its you know, where my grandmother decided to come down south and see better opportunities. And when they arrived from the south, they were illegally blocked from living in certain neighborhoods and denied federally backed loans for homes in the areas they did live. Many could only buy homes and inflated prices through predatory contracts, resulting in the theft of their wealth and equity. Unfortunately, greater inglewood is a neighborhood that was acutely impacted by discriminatory lending practices. Yes, this is a great example of what theres a lot of other 2 oclock. She houses. Yeah. These are nice structure. Oh yeah. Because if you literally pick them up and put them on the north side, it would be, you know, 405000, what is it worth now . Maybe 20000, housing discrimination and segregation the began decades ago, laid the ground for the desertion of resources from black communities. 958, there was an influx of africanamerican families which came up from the south in the last wave of the great migration and began moving in and which then in turn created what you know of the white light. Lotta households left there with further west out suburbs, and there was a lot of large cheering disinvestment that began at that time. He shot is part of a coalition working to address the Life Expectancy gap in chicago, especially by targeting a central problem disinvestment to desertion of businesses and jobs. So what type of jobs are available to these Community Members that have the highest disparity that will in turn determine what kind of Health Insurance they have access to . What is the career trajectory thats allowing people to not only make a livable wage, but a sustainable wage over a period of time to break generational poverty . How does disinvestment affect the Health Outcomes in this community . Theres a connective tissue there that you cannot separate. You have to look at what investment in the community is, what is the strength of the court or what type of businesses exist . What type of Grocery Stores . What is the quality of food . When we look at the Life Expectancy gap, theyre all connected. The disinvestment began taking to go is still happening and communities are still fighting to keep the few resources in their neighborhoods to hospitals. Because the geographic segregation that gets replicated and because the way capitalism works, theres a disincentive to go into poor black neighborhoods at many of the hospitals that serve the citys low income, black and latino communities. Its her safety net hospitals, medical centers that serve the poor, theyre largely painted to Government Program medicaid, because black people are more likely to live in concentrated poverty and lack next people as well. In the latter, next population has a lot of undocumented uninsured. People in it, the institutions they go to are force, take a vow of poverty in order to know ive worked at that, those hospitals that are there and serve or people are undercapitalized, they cant invest. So as a doctor, i call that experience one street to a world right now on the street. And we close in 2009, which was hard to give them had a lot of resources that we needed because they rely on medicaid payments. Its difficult for these hospitals to stay afloat financially. In the past 20 years, 8 hospitals that served low income communities in chicago have closed, and this is mercy, hospital. Mercy hospital is facing the same fate. Now, closure in the midst of a pandemic. Mercy hospital is one of the oldest hospitals in the city of chicago, and this is also considered a safety net hospital. Absolutely. But if you look at the people coming out of the hospital, you see her constituency is working class black and brown because its funded through medicaid reimbursements. Doesnt have the resources that in this hospital used to have a try the center. They close it. Whats the impact on the community . Then if deans safety net hospitals close, the impact is that people that live in this community dont have access to health put health care within a safe distance that hole. So people end up catching a bus in a train to try to get health care. Its a Public Safety risk. Ill believe it. When destitution is like this shut down, it contributes to people leaving the area, the closure of Mercy Hospital. Is it in line with the disinvestment that youve seen . Absolutely it to me, it is a part of the look. So you let all this lead out used to be the out of the will housing project. I dont use the word gentrification because i think that takes the sting out of it. But with the way you program the way you produce communities as you kill the basic quality of life is too early to get it now. So right now, Chicago HealthEquity Coalition has an action, a 4 oclock. Were going to organize to save Mercy Hospital, whatever it takes you to yes, maggie to screw, as well as a coalition of the unions want the governor of illinois to intervene to save the hospital. We understood the 1st hospital, but we let our Health Matter manage our health that a closing Mercy Hospital and downsizing them out of access to health care in black communities. This, fortunately, infected by kobe, 90 and other health disparities, created by White Supremacy is a farce to the barry. I just think that governor great skill sets needs to explore big need to cover the costs that flowed the stuff, this closing of a house that you know about to help out. Some didnt last the now, but its going to be somebody else. And then when we come downtown to the citys financial center, hoping to raise awareness in the area. They say politicians care about going to be the potus congress. Perhaps its the says they cant ignore them. We will give them the water was one of Mercy Hospital would serve a largely black population is gets hit by over it. Were now the prices are rising. Its 6 am because its black people. Nobody cares. Thats part of the problem. Making people care about something that simply embedded in society as racism, events. If you let me answer you, i thought that i needed to be very imposing on the hospital, especially as the virus continues to spread across the us. And communities of color are still a risk that is say, theyre making a week from now, house and neck with days in this country, we promote death camps, actual structural violence. Why . Closing a safety net hospital in an area of the city that desperately needs money. And i. Q. Is accountable. Thats the interesting thing about structural racism. You dont have to find an accountable individual. Its about our system called it is the great new field has revealed. The savage inequities in almost every basic quality of life, is teaching you to think about. The pandemic has revealed. While we have the preexisting conditions that we dont have access to Quality Health care, the media by young people, the schools dont not, that exists technology. Things that most americans take for granted. We are not the thieves. We are not the problem. White supremacy used to ease off the question is, will america operate like that in your name . American people have finally folk in america as i split when america is off balance or become more dangerous, the world is looking in and i was feeling mixture of sadness and beauty. With the election behind us will the Republican Party dumptruck the feel we can take on us politics and society. Thats the bottom line. Some could be jack. Some would simply disappear. Others have been found dead. One i want to investigate the plight of thailands distant on out of the earth. This is aljazeera. Im fully back to. This is the news hour live from our World Headquarters in doha, coming up in the next 60 minutes. U. K. Scientists report encouraging results as the world searches for a safe and effective covert 1000 vaccine. 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