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Maria and Julio are joined by Dr. Steven Thrasher, journalist and author of the new book, \\u201cThe Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide.\\u201d They discuss how viruses, from HIV/AIDS to the coronavirus, reveal inequities in our society. They also talk about the ways that COVID-19 continues impacting the most vulnerable populations, even as our leaders shift to a \\u201cpost-pandemic\\u201d reality.

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• \\u201cFuture pandemics aren\\u2019t hypothetical; they\\u2019re inevitable and imminent. New infectious diseases have regularly emerged throughout recent decades, and climate change is quickening the pace of such events,\\u201d writes Ed Yong in this piece for The Atlantic.

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• Apoorva Mandavilli writes that viruses like COVID and Monkeypox \\u201chave revealed deep fissures in the nation\\u2019s framework for containing epidemics,\\u201d for The New York Times.

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• Joshua Gutterman Tranen writes about the harm reduction strategies pioneered by queer men of color to combat HIV/AIDS, and how that approach can be used to prevent and treat Monkeypox, for Boston Review.

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Photo credit: Courtesy of Dr. Steven Thrasher