As Virus Bears Down, LA Healthcare System Ill-Prepared for Outbreak
In this segment of By Any Means Necessary hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Douglass Kauffman, hospital worker at Keck Medical Center in Los Angeles and shop steward for National Union of Healthcare Workers, to talk about how we ended up so under-prepared for the imminent expansion of the COVID-19 outbreak, why the for-profit nature of the healthcare industry means the system is by design unsuited to mobilizing against a large-scale viral outbreak, and how the lack of testing capability is creating a vicious cycle in which the bottleneck of healthcare workers unable to return to work after being exposed further erodes our healthcare capabilities.