EPISODE · Aug 11, 2021 · 12 MIN
357 - The Link Between Evictions and Rising COVID-19 Cases
from Public Health On Call · host The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Recent research led by Craig Pollack of Johns Hopkins and Kathryn Leifheit of UCLA suggests that more than 433,000 excess cases and 10,700 excess deaths from COVID-19 in 2020 were associated with the lifting of eviction moratoriums in various states. They talk to Stephanie Desmon about the impact of a recently reinstated eviction moratorium, the staggering amount of back rent owed in the United States, and how much the pandemic has exposed larger problems in the housing market.
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