'Empathy Fatigue' Has Led To More COVID Deaths - a podcast by WNYC

Eight out of 10 American COVID-19 deaths have been among people older than 65; the rest of the dead are disproportionately Black.  Olga Khazan, staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of Weird: The Power of Being an Outsider in an Insider World, talks about how 'empathy fatigue,' the point in a mass tragedy where we no longer see victims as individuals but statistics, is heightened by racism and ageism in our society. 

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