Even as the total number of deaths grows, White House officials said Sunday that if the public forcefully practices social distancing, the United States might see the curve bending soon.
Experts say masks can help prevent those who are asymptomatic from unknowingly spreading COVID-19.
Plus, health care worker who have recovered from the virus share their experiences.
And while many companies are required to offer sick leave and other benefits to their employees, gig workers are running into hurdles to get the help they were promised.
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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - What We Know About Chicago’s New Top Cop
He still needs to be confirmed by the city council, but Mayor Lightfoot’s pick to run the Chicago Police Department is the former chief of police in Dallas. WBEZ’s Patrick Smith gives us some intel on why he was chosen and how he’ll run CPD.
Pod Save America - “More Warren, less Kushner.”
Donald Trump and Jared Kushner let the states fend for themselves, Republicans in Wisconsin fight Democratic efforts to make voting safer, and Bernie Sanders’s advisors encourage him to end his candidacy. Then Elizabeth Warren talks to Jon F. about her plans to fix our public health and economic crises, and how she’s thinking about the November election.
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Cato Daily Podcast - States Suspend Certificate-of-Need Laws to Address COVID-19
Which states are standing in the way of a better pandemic response? Angela Erickson of the Pacific Legal Foundation discusses why some states have relaxed health care certificate-of-need requirements while others are effectively preventing a more robust private sector response to the crisis.
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CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: How Disruption Makes Humanity Stronger, Feat. Emerson Spartz
Second order effects are things that happen as unexpected outcomes of something else happening. These effects can create surprising causal chains.
Take this for example: A pandemic makes everyone need to work from home leads to an increase in video calling leads to Walmart reporting that people are buying more shirts, but not pants.
Emerson Spartz is one of the world’s foremost thinkers on virality and the internet. He founded Mugglenet - the world’s biggest Harry Potter fan site - as a middle school drop out, and would later found and raise tens of millions for Dose.
In the past weeks, Emerson started an open crowdsourced document on the Coronavirus’ second order effects that has, itself, gone viral, especially among venture capitals and other investor circles trying to understand what the world looks like on the other side of this.
Emerson brings a surprisingly optimistic perspective on where this could lead a generation of people who are now more fully plugged in to the internet than ever before.
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CBS News Roundup - World News Roundup: 04/06
Bracing for a bad week. More governors issue warnings. Hospitals are busy, but lose money. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.
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World Book Club - Fatima Bhutto – The Shadow of the Crescent Moon
Long-listed for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, Bhutto’s lyrical debut novel unfolds over the course of one morning in Mir Ali, a small town in Pakistan's Tribal Areas close to the Afghan border. Set during the American invasion of Afghanistan, it chronicles the lives of five young people trying to live and love in a world on fire. On a day seemingly like any other, three brothers meet for breakfast before going their separate ways. Three hours later their day will end in devastating circumstances.
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The Intelligence from The Economist - An app for that: covid surveillance
To keep track of the spread of covid-19, some governments are turning to digital surveillance, using mobile-phone apps and data networks. We ask whether this will work—and examine the threat to privacy posed by a digital panopticon. Britain’s Labour Party has a new leader. We ask in which direction Sir Keir Starmer will lead the opposition. And we report on the northern hemisphere’s winter that wasn’t. For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here www.economist.com/radiooffer
Start the Week - The genetic gender gap
Women are faring better than men in the coronavirus pandemic because of their genetic superiority, according to the physician Sharon Moalem. He tells Kirsty Wark that women live longer than men and have stronger immune systems because they have two x chromosomes to choose from. In his book, The Better Half, Moalem calls for better understanding of the genetic gender gap and for a change to the male-centric, one-size-fits-all view of medical studies.
But if women have greater advantage genetically, where did the prevailing idea of fragile female biology come from? In The Gendered Brain the cognitive neuroscientist Gina Rippon traces the ideas of women’s physical inferiority to the 18th century, and later to the brain science of the 19th century. Even after the development of new brain-imaging technologies showed how similar brains are, the idea of the ‘male’ and ‘female’ brain has remained remarkably persistent.
Producer: Katy Hickman
Start the Week - The genetic gender gap
Women are faring better than men in the coronavirus pandemic because of their genetic superiority, according to the physician Sharon Moalem. He tells Kirsty Wark that women live longer than men and have stronger immune systems because they have two x chromosomes to choose from. In his book, The Better Half, Moalem calls for better understanding of the genetic gender gap and for a change to the male-centric, one-size-fits-all view of medical studies.
But if women have greater advantage genetically, where did the prevailing idea of fragile female biology come from? In The Gendered Brain the cognitive neuroscientist Gina Rippon traces the ideas of women’s physical inferiority to the 18th century, and later to the brain science of the 19th century. Even after the development of new brain-imaging technologies showed how similar brains are, the idea of the ‘male’ and ‘female’ brain has remained remarkably persistent.
Producer: Katy Hickman