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Media Roundtable: The COVID-19 Crisis In Spain -- Budget Cuts & Pandemic Preparedness In CA

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A healthcare worker prepares medication for a COVID-19 patient at one of the intensive care units (ICU) of the Germans Trias i Pujol hospital in Badalona, Barcelona province, Spain, Wednesday, April 1, 2020

On this edition of Your Call’s media roundtable, we're discussing the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain, where the virus has claimed more than 14,000 lives. M

ore than 12,000 healthcare workers have been infected and more than 900,00 people have lost their jobs.

Later in the show, we'll discuss the impacts of US budget cuts on state emergency preparedness plans, the struggle for protective gear, and fair wages.

Guests: 

 

Will Carless, correspondent for Reveal covering extremism

 

Stephen Burgen, freelance journalist and a contributor to the Guardian based in Barcelona

 

Web Resources:

 

The Guardian, Stephen Burgen: Poor and vulnerable hardest hit by pandemic in Spain

 

The NY Times, Raphael Minder: Spain's Coronavirus Crisis Accelerated as Warnings Went Unheeded

 

Reveal, Will Carless: Essential workers

 

Reveal, Will Carless, Will Evans, and Lance Williams: California created a massive medical reserve – with acute care beds, ventilators and N95 masks — then let it collapse

 

Rose Aguilar has been the host of Your Call since 2006. She became a regular media roundtable guest in 2001. In 2019, the San Francisco Press Club named Your Call the best public affairs program. In 2017, The Nation named it the most valuable local radio show.