Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. EDT Tuesday, August 11, 2020.
*Please note that four minor edits were made to recording following original broadcast.
Sheri Fink analyzes the ongoing response to COVID-19 from her on-the-ground perspective.
Fink is the author of the New York Times bestselling book and 2014 CLSC selection Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital, about choices made in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Fink also serves as a correspondent at the New York Times where she published the Aug. 10 article “Inside the Fight to Save Houston’s Most Vulnerable,” which depicts ongoing efforts to save lives from COVID-19 among the Latino population.
She is also an executive producer of the Netflix documentary television series “Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak,” which premiered in January 2020.
About Chautauqua Institution: Chautauqua Institution is a community on the shores of Chautauqua Lake in southwestern New York state that comes alive each summer with a unique mix of fine and performing arts, lectures, interfaith worship and programs, and recreational activities. As a community, we celebrate, encourage and study the arts and treat them as integral to all of learning, and we convene the critical conversations of the day to advance understanding through civil dialogue. CHQ Assembly is the online expression of Chautauqua Institution's mission.
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