‘The Country is Bleeding’: Covid-19 in the US
Interview with Nicole Austin-Hillery, Executive Director, US Program, Human Rights Watch
As the Covid-19 pandemic rocks the United States, it is exposing cracks in the system. The differences often split along not just socio-economic but also racial lines. Who gets to work from home and still receive a paycheck? Which kids have computers they can use to access school online? And, crucially, who gets the best – or even adequate – health care? US program executive director Nicole Austin-Hillery talks with Amy Braunschweiger about the United States response to Covid-19, and how a rights-based approach to address this public health crisis could help keep people safer well into the future.
