virus than a common mask so we ve got to get that word out. we ve got to educated. doctor, first of all, do you think the price point and accessibility make upgrading to a better mask up realistic for tom families? do you think that s a barrier? and i m also curious do you think their tone is surprising at all in the sense that do you think we still have to be educating people, or do you think people know that n-95 is what you should be wearing? oh, look, we still have to ted kate people. i m the founding director of the rodham institute dedicated to health equity in d.c. we distributed 560,000 masks and hand sanitizers to the poor areas of d.c., and that was several months ago, almost a year ago now. education is the key to really defeating this virus but availability or access versus availability are not necessarily the same thing. remember, that people have competing priorities. if you do not make it easy for people to get these masks, it
will be just one more thing on their to-do list. if you ve got multi-generational households where you have to take care of people, you ve got to go to work, you ve got to fill out insurance information, we have to make this available but also to really engage those community-based organizations that know the community best to have them be the ones to education and reichard out. let s not forgot vaccines. you know, i ve got 61 patients of mine in the last three weeks who came down with covid. none of them got hospitalized except one person who declined the vaccine, so it s you know, we can walk and chew gum at the same time. it s this and that, right? right. right, and i know tomorrow blackdoctors.org and your rodham institute are hosting the state of black health virtual summit. what are your hopes for that event as it relates to the health of the black community, and what challenges is the black community facing in particular in this ban democratic? we know that think
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