blackstock: thank you for having me. >> tell us, what is your group about. dr. blackstock: i formed the organization in response to racial health inequities that i have seen practicing over 10 years in the emergency department. we have some very concerning statistics. life men have the shortest expectancy, black women have the highest maternal mortality rate, and i wanted to work with health and related organizations around these racial health inequities. host: how do you propose to go about doing that? what is your organization doing? dr. blackstock: i partner with these organizations and i do talk, training, consulting. the training is about racism in health care, unconscious bias in health care, to make clinicians and organizations more aware of how -- we are trying to be wonderful physicians and clinicians to people and sometimes our biases influence the way we care for people and we have data that shows that. working with organizations to ensure they are meeting their health equity goals, ensuring that all patients have the optimal health outcomes as much a

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blackstock, were you able hear her comment? >> guest: no, i wasn't able to hear that question clearly trying it was kind of muddy on my in. we apologize about that. we'll go to john in virginia. go ahead. >> caller: thanks for taking my call. doctor, thank you for a circuit and i appreciate you give us the best advice that you can give. i would like to all of it -- the gym new called earlier and say community. the black people in this country, they have been suffering for long time and they have a lot of existence that they have but that's not what i call the doctor, the problem is we have a president who is challenging our doctors or telling us what need to be done and how can we use this disease. that doesn't mean that wearing a mask is that you get medication. you are protecting yourself and protecting the others. .. i would know for sure about a surgery with my wife without having a mask because you are not going to do it. i just came back from new zealand and i can tell you one thing. i am surprised how people are followin

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blackstock? >> absolutely. you don't want to travel unless it's necessary. traveling by air is a moderate risk. if you do, you want to try to reduce your risk. going to the airport, in the airport, you want to make sure you use phone apps for check-ins and boarding. at boarding, use contactless payments to buy food. if you're standing in long security lines, you want to keep your physical distance. you also don't want to put your belong innings in those large bins that people use often. put your phone, keys and wallet in your carry-on luggage. while you're on the plane, it's probably a great time to use either a surgical mask, even if you have an n95, try to use that as well, as well as a face shield, and try to sit in the seat next to the window. it will minimize the number of people you have to come in contact with. >> mask and shield. okay. debra has a question about making sure she's prepared, dr. natalie. she's asking, with experts stating that the fall and winter are going to be worse than now, how should

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blackstock, it's so enraging to think that what it takes for a president of the united states to care about people, potentially dying by the hundreds of thousands is they be in the right states. that herman cain, god rest his spirit and his family that would be a more important death to the bt than the average black person out in the world that couldn't vote for him. leets talk about oush states that he considers our people. georgia. georgia voted for him. children and staff test positive at a camp. the cdc released a study on friday about the outbreak says it shows children are susceptible and play an important role in transmission. among the children and staff tested, 260 came back positive. 231 of them, 17 and younger. what are the risks that children who test positive even if they don't have symptoms could infect others and what do you make of the idea there's a there people, our people situation or a delineates in the white house when the disproportionate number of deaths are among our people, among black people and brown people. >> right. thank you for having me, joy. i was here

blackstock. thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you. >>> coming up on state of the union this morning. jake tapper will speak with house speaker nancy pelosi, secretary of education, betsy devos and carlos jimenez. that's today at 9:00 on cnn. >>> still to come, robert mueller defends his investigation into russia and the trump campaign, i should say against commuting of the sentence for roger stone. we'll explain what led to this public statement. don't just think about where you're headed this summer. think about how you'll get there. and now that you can lease or buy a new lincoln remotely or in person... discovering that feeling has never been more effortless. the lincoln summer invitation sales event is here. >> tech: every customer has their own safelite story. this couple was on a camping trip... ...when their windshield got a chip. they drove to safelite for a same-day repair. and with their insurance, it was no cost to them. >> woman: really? >> tech: that's service you can t

blackstock is an emergency medicine physician in new york. can read some of her postings on yahoo! news, she's in medical could trigger and also the founder and ceo of an organization called advancing health equity. welcome to washington journal. guest: thank you for having me. host: tellis, what is your group, advancing health equity. what is that about? guest: i start of the organization about a year and a half ago in response to racial health inequities that i can see in my clinical practice, practicing over 10 years in the emergency department. we have some very concerning statistics. black men have the shortest life expectancy, black women have the highest maternal mortality rate. i really want us to work with health care and related organizations around these racial health inequities. host: how do you propose going about doing that? in a practical way, what is your organization doing? guest: i partner with these organizations for talks, training, consulting. most training is about racism and health care, unconscious bias in health care.

blackstock. be sure to join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, text messages, and tweets. here is a look at our live coverage on thursday. c-span,p.m. eastern on defense secretary mark esper and joint chiefs of staff chairman mark milley testify about defense department authorities related to civilian law enforcement. at 5:00 p.m., our campaign 2020 coverage includes joe biden and massachusetts senator elizabeth warren discussing the reopening of schools amid the coronavirus pandemic. on c-span two, the house appropriations committee considers ledger that sets 2021 spending levels for the state department, agriculture, and military construction. representative cheri bustos is chair of the democratic congressional campaign committee. organization's executive director to talk about the democrats strategy of winning elections. hosted by the american university women's and politics institute, this is just under an hour.

blackstock, an emergency room physician and the founder and ceo of advancing health equity. an organization whose goal is get to rid of race-based inequalities. thank you very much for being here. we're hitting another daily record of 53,000 cases in the united states. and we also know that this virus is affecting communities of color much harder. and in a much worse way than it is affecting white communities. what does that mean for the disparity? not only the economic inequality that we're seeing in this country but the health care disparity that we have. what can you tell us? >> even before the pandemic, these communities, black and latino, indigenous communities, were already carrying the highest burden of chronic disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity and asthma, which are underlying factors that make people do much worse when they're infected with coronavirus. we're seeing it disproportionately in these communities and my concern is as this continues across the country, these communities will be even further impacted. >> do you think that it has been easier fo

uche blackstock. watch c-span's "washington journal" this morning, and be sure to join with your phone tweets.essages, and >> today, secretary of defense and joint chiefs of staff general mark milley testified before the house armed services committee on the authority and rules of the defense department related to civilian law enforcement. watch live coverage beginning at 1:00 p.m. eastern on c-span, on demand on c-span.org, four listen live wherever you are on the free c-span radio app. >> illinois representative cheri bustos is chair of the democratic congressional campaign committee. she joined the organization's executive director to talk about the democrats' strategy of winning house seats in the election. 2020 hosted by the american university women in politics institute, this is just under an hour. we are delighted to have congresswoman cheri bustos of illinois. she is currently the chairwoman of the democratic congressional campaign committee. she has served four years in the house and in her

blackstock, an emergency room physician, who does critical work at an urgent care central. also works with advancing health equity where she was a founder with health organizations on equitable care. thank you all for doing this. >> thank you. >> my pleasure. >> how did you get the virus and were you surprised? >> i think i got it at the gym and i was really surprised. i didn't think i would get sick. i thought i was immune because i was young. >> does that mean you were not always following the different guidelines? >> i would say so. i basically stayed at the gym until the governor man dated it was closed so i really was not doing what i needed to do in the beginning to not get sick. >> i first lost my taste and smell and that was not even a symptom at the time. i thought i had a sign us infection. then i had a high temperature of 103 and shortness of breath. i decided to go to the emergency room and have a chest x-ray. there was some fluid in my lungs so it was way worse than i even expected the virus to be, honestly. >> how about you, jonah? >> yeah. a lot of my symptom

blackstock, a yahoo news medical contributor and founder and ceo of advancing health equity. thanks for being with us, doctor another thing he did say during that interview was that he was concentrating on certain groups across the country, to try to get more awareness, and as you saw there, bring up the issue of politicization of wearing masks or not what's the best way to talk about that to mayors on the ground like we were just talking about to get the message across about face masks >> you know, that's such a great question i think that we have the evidence that universal masking works. and i think that the best approach is to use a collective response we have seen how well other countries with populations as large as the united states have been able to mitigate the spread of virus by wearing masks. so i think that we need to just spread that the collective response is what's the most important way to get this virus under control. >> as you look forward to the interview we were talking about earlier with president trump, once again, he was criticizing dr. anthony fauci. i

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uche blackstock, thank you. >> thank you so much. >>> not only is it independence day, the fourth of july here in the united states, but it is super saturday in the uk. >> super saturday! yes! >> and some even saying super spreader saturday as thousands of businesses are opening their doors for the first time in over three months. >> alex witt, are you pumped for super saturday? >> i guess so. >> i guess so. >> she's like, my name is bennett, leave me out of it. bars, pubs, movie theaters and hair salons in britain have been given the green light to reopen, as lockdown restrictions ease over there. just on friday, prince william visited a pub near his country home in england, where he sat down for a drink with the owner, proving that the royals, they're just like us. >> they're just like us. >> it's amazing. >> the uk is also loosening travel restrictions for some, of course, as we know. british government has issued a list of nearly 60 destinations that now pose a reduced risk for coronavirus. of course, we already know that the u.s. did not make that cut. anyone traveling from the

uche blackstock. watch washington journal and be sure to adjourn the -- sure to join the discussion with phone calls and tweets. here is a look and our live coverage thursday. 1:00 p.m. eastern on c-span, defense secretary mark expert and joint chiefs of staff chairman general mark milley testify about defense department civilianes related to law enforcement. then, joe biden and massachusetts senator elizabeth warren discussing the reopening of schools amid the coronavirus pandemic. on c-span 2, the house appropriations committee considers legislation that sets 2021 spending levels for the state department, foreign operations, agriculture, and military construction. several congressional hearings streaming on our website thursday. at noon eastern, a house financial services subcommittee examines financial aid services for small businesses during the coronavirus pandemic. at the same time, there is also a house energy and commerce subcommittee hearing on protecting consumers from frauds and scams as a