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In this holiday weekend episode, before returning to our lineup of guest experts, popular radio host Terry Base and The Medi’s Garcia Williams recapped our many #COVID19-conversation episodes, full of information not easily found elsewhere. In the nearly 3 months WJNI and The Medi had been running the MEDI MONDAYS radio show as a public service as of this date, our experts had covered:

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• The very latest on COVID-19 from our state epidemiologist

• Social justice and advocacy on matters the disproportionately impact people of color in our community, including COVID-19

• How historians are collecting the #coronavirus experiences of African Americans, and how you can submit yours

• How the pandemic is affecting, and will affect, young children with special needs, autism, & disabilities... and pregnant womenCOVID-19's impact on communities of color, from US Rep. James Clyburn, chair of the House Committee on Coronavirus

• COVID-19's impact on mental health, and ways you can keep yourself mentally healthy during the pandemic

• COVID-19's impact on people in addiction recovery, a disease of isolation, from an executive of The Opioid Collaborative

• Wellness and mindfulness during the pandemic, particularly needed by those impacted by social determinants of health

• Why the "stay at home" order is detrimental to people of color and those living in poverty, from medical ethicist Glenn Ellis

• Healthcare disparities & on-the-ground COVID-19 experiences of one hospital system, from the COO of KerhshawHealth

• A COVID-19 testing update from the COO of Franklin C. Fetter Healthcare

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Tune in every Monday morning to WJNI 106.3 FM or listen online at www.wjnigospel.com for a new, local conversation about COVID-19 and how it's affecting under-served populations, with information and experts that can't be found anywhere else. Past episodes of MEDI MONDAYS: The Coronavirus Edition can also be found at www.themedi.org/Medi-Mondays-Coronavirus. 

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Listen to this episode below!