As COVID-19 cases continue to mount across the country, many states are still preparing for the virus to hit their populations with full force. In Florida, state officials have voiced concerns about shutting down the economy, while local officials have noted surging hospitalizations in their cities. Now, some mayors are no longer waiting for the governor to order a lockdown.
This week, we examine criticisms of Imperial College?s epidemiologists. We ask how A-Level and GCSE grades will be allocated, given that the exams have vanished in a puff of social distancing. Adam Kucharski, author of The Rules of Contagion, tells us about the history of epidemiology. We look at the supermarkets: how are their supply chains holding up and how much stockpiling is really going on. And is coronavirus having a different impact on men than on women?
We're talking about top doctors' COVID-19 predictions for the months ahead as they suggest social distancing can save more than a million American lives, and we're discussing the urgent call for help from governors around the country.
Plus: college athletes get second chances, workers go on strike, and the new way to buy Girl Scout cookies.
Those stories and more in less than 10 minutes!
Then, how does the $2.2 trillion stimulus package address student loans? The answer in our new “Talk to Me Tuesday" segment.
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Encore episode. NPR science correspondent Geoff Brumfiel shares the story of Nazi Germany's attempt to build a nuclear reactor — and how evidence of that effort was almost lost to history. It's a tale he heard from Timothy Koeth and Miriam Hiebert at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Maryland in College Park. Read more on their original story in Physics Today.
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Companies make thousands of acquisitions each year. Dan Heath, co-author of the New York Times bestseller Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work, has a word of warning. The thinking that drives those decisions is the same thinking teenagers use.
Efforts to bring unhoused people inside have been growing as the coronavirus outbreak takes hold, but advocates say there’s more to be done. We talk to Chris Ko, of the United Way in Los Angeles, to learn more about the situation in that city.
Workers across the country are feeling the impact of the pandemic. Employees at Macy’s, The Gap, and Kohl’s have been furloughed, while employees at Amazon, Instacart, and Whole Foods are going on strike.
And in headlines: the DOJ investigates Senator Richard Burr’s stock trades, sold-out chickens, and an astrophysicist fights Covid-19 by putting metal in nose.
Erin Karam was a kid interested in everything. She played music, she was into sports, and… into computers and programming. She continues to have well rounded interests today, running marathons, coaching her kids sports teams and teaching them to play music. Being from a healthcare family, she was always looking for purpose, and doing a job that meant something.. and 5 years ago, she jumped onboard to build Dina (Formerly Prepared Health), after latching on the story and vision of the company. She set positively impact the world – by enabling the real time exchange of information between health care providers and home health professionals.
Plumage! Sexy dances! Feather heists! Possible holographic disco birds? Natural History Museum of LA ornithology curator Dr. Allison Shultz is a professional plumologist aka feather expert. We visit the museum’s collection of rare specimens and chat about everything from fossilized dinosaur feathers to silent owl flight to furry bird legs to why pigeons are so loud, peacock tails, down parkas, quill pens, heavy metal flautists, feather thieves, pigments, flight feathers, Vantablack, if you can eat feathers and why birdwatching is like seeing tiny purple raccoons zoom overhead. Birds: like Pokemon Go but weirder.
In this episode, the Goods from the Woods Boys are talking about the specifics of regional junk food with comedian and proud Philadelphian, Nicole Yates! This episode is all about highly specific regional brands like Tastykake and Golden Flake. We also talk about regional sodas and ridiculous pick-up lines. This ep is more fun than a case of Grapico! Follow Nicole on all forms of social media @Yatesy75. Follow our show on Twitter @TheGoodsPod. Rivers is @RiversLangley Dr. Pat is @PM_Reilly Sam is @SlamHarter Carter is @Carter_Glascock Subscribe on Patreon for a Bonus Episode every week! http://patreon.com/TheGoodsPod Pick up a Goods from the Woods t-shirt at: http://prowrestlingtees.com/TheGoodsPod
Bev Kauffeldt is a team leader for the Christian aid organization, Samaritan's Purse. She's joining us from Cremona, Italy where she's working in a field hospital that Samaritan's Purse set up in the parking lot of Cremona Hospital.
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Parts of Florida and all of Maryland and Virginia are shut down and under stay at home orders to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
Congressman Mark Meadows of North Carolina resigned from Congress on Monday afternoon and is starting Tuesday as President Trump’s chief of staff , per Fox News.
Another economic blow from COVID-19: Macy's announced it is furloughing most of its 125,000 employees, who work at Macy's, Bloomingdale's, and Bluemercury.
