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Maria and Julio are joined by\\xa0Alexis Madrigal, staff writer at The Atlantic and co-founder of The Atlantic\'s\\xa0COVID Tracking Project. They dig into the stories\\xa0behind the COVID-19 data, and discuss the disproportionate\\xa0impact the disease continues to have on people of color, particularly\\xa0the\\xa0Latino community.\\xa0 ITT Staff Picks: - In\\xa0Alexis\' latest piece\\xa0for The Atlantic, he warns of the dire consequences of the impending possibility that the country\'s COVID-19 testing system becomes overwhelmed, again. - The New York Times\\xa0breaks down the data on the coronavirus racial disparities and the stories behind the staggering statistic that Latinos and Black Americans in the United States are three times more likely to become infected as their white counterparts. - After\\xa0Mark Anthony Urquiza died of coronavirus,\\xa0NBC\'s Nicole Acevedo reported on the now-viral obituary that his family wrote\\xa0in The Arizona Republic, which attributed his death to "the carelessness of politicians who continue to jeopardize the health of black and brown bodies." Photo Credit: AP Photo/Matt York, File \\xa0

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