Month: May 2020

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The NewsWorthy - Who’s Getting Sick, Sports Comeback Plans & Drive-in Series (+ When to Get Tested)- Thursday, May 7th, 2020

The news to know for Thursday, May 7th, 2020!

We’re talking about new data from hospitals showing results that even surprised New York’s governor, and why President Trump is reportedly questioning the COVID-19 death toll.

Plus, we're talking about Facebook's new global oversight board, how both college and professional sports could make their comebacks, and the drive-in movie theater series in the works around the country.

Those stories and more in less than 10 minutes!

Then, hang out after the news for the Thing to Know Thursday bonus interview about the right time to get a COVID-19 test.

Head to www.theNewsWorthy.com/shownotes to read more about any of the stories mentioned in this episode or see the sources below.

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Sources:

Who’s Getting COVID-19: NBC News, WSJ, NYT

Where People Stay Home: WaPo, SafeGraph

Death Toll/Case Count: Johns Hopkins

Coronavirus Death Toll Questioned: Axios

Trump Changes Mind on Task Force: Politico, WSJ

New College Sex Assault Rules: USA Today, NBC News, AP

NCAA College Sports Return Plan: Yahoo Sports, AP, NCAA

NFL Reopening Protocols: AP, CBS Sports

New Facebook Oversight Board: The Verge, Politico, Facebook

Apple Users Sharing Medical IDs: Mashable, TechCrunch, Engadget

Clorox 500% Demand Increase: NBC News, USA TODAY

Summer Drive-In Movie Series: The Verge, Variety, Tribeca Enterprises

Closest Black Hole to Earth: CNN, The Verge, CBS News

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Short Wave - What We’re Missing, By Missing Strangers Now

With a lot of us stuck at home, trying to physically distance from each other, one part of daily life has largely disappeared: bumping into strangers. On today's show, Maddie talks with Yowei Shaw, a reporter from NPR's Invisibilia, about the surprising benefits of stranger interactions. And Short Wave tries out QuarantineChat, a workaround to our current strangerless existence.

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What A Day - It’s Not Easy Making Vaccine

The vaccine race is on, with several companies, governments, and academic labs working on lots of different potential options at once. We dig into the radical ideas to speed things along.

Protestors and activist groups in Georgia are calling for the resignation of the district attorney who chose not to arrest the killers of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery, who was shot while jogging unarmed in that state. A look at the activists and leaders who are speaking out.

And in headlines: Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos makes things more difficult for college sexual assault victims, Facebook unveils 20 members of its content Supreme Court, and one brave Belgian llama stands up to Covid-19.

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The Daily Signal - What You Need to Know About Contact Tracing, Privacy, and COVID-19

Contact tracing is seen as one way to fight COVID-19. But does the tracing, which would mean tracking who a person had been physically near in recent days, involve giving up too much privacy?

Klon Kitchen, a senior research fellow in technology at The Heritage Foundation, joins The Daily Signal Podcast to how contact tracing how works, and whether it be used to stem the spread of the coronavirus in the United States. He also discusses who would have access to the resulting information, privacy concerns, and more.

We also cover these stories:

  • The Little Sisters of the Poor were back at the Supreme Court.
  • Vice President Mike Pence is pleased with the Justice Department's decision to side with a Virginia church in a lawsuit against Gov. Ralph Northam. 
  • The Michigan legislature has sued Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in an effort to put a stop to her coronavirus emergency orders. 

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The Gist - Forecasting Federal Inaction

On the Gist, the new White House Press Secretary reiterates that the media sometimes gets it wrong.

In the first half of this two-part interview, Mike talks with Dr. Nina Fefferman from the University of Tennessee Knoxville about predictive modeling and the Covid-19 crisis. Today, they focus on the difficulty of making projections when the government is actively disregarding expert guidance, and Dr. Fefferman’s ideas about food distribution adaptations for restaurants during this time.

In the spiel, a canadian kerfuffle but with license plates.

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Curious City - Our Daughter Is A Nurse On The Front Lines Of The Coronavirus Pandemic

Life Interrupted is a new weekly series from Curious City about daily life in Chicago during the pandemic. In today's episode, as their daughter treats COVID-19 patients in intensive care, Suzie and Bob Pschirrer wonder if military families feel the same mix of pride and fear.

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Curious City - Our Daughter Is A Nurse On The Front Lines Of The Coronavirus Pandemic

Life Interrupted is a new weekly series from Curious City about daily life in Chicago during the pandemic. In today's episode, as their daughter treats COVID-19 patients in intensive care, Suzie and Bob Pschirrer wonder if military families feel the same mix of pride and fear.