From symptoms to best practices and more, the news around COVID-19 is constantly changing and being updated. Infectious disease expert Dr. Mina Taormina returns to answer a new batch of questions from us, and from listeners
Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - WBEZ’s Chicago And Illinois News Roundup: May 1, 2020
We bring you all the big state and local news this week as the covid-19 crisis continues. John Byrne from the Chicago Tribune and Amanda Vinicky of WTTW break it all down, from City Hall to the statehouse in Springfield and everywhere in between.
Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Things To Read, Watch, and Do With Author Nnedi Okorafor
We’re all doing our best to cope under the current circumstances. But it always helps to get ideas of things to read, watch, and do during the stay-at-home order. So each week, we reach out to a creative Chicagoan to get their ideas. This week, we get some of those ideas science fiction, fantasy, and magical realism author Nnedi Okorafor
Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - A Dose Of Reality: What Lies Ahead For Covid-Covered America
When it comes to battling the covid-19 virus, it's not just that we’re not doing things right. It’s that we’re doing things wrong. And we’re doing them for the wrong reasons. We still have a chance to turn things around and save lives, but the future is going to look a lot different than we imagined a few months ago. NY Times’ science and health reporter Donald McNeil looks into that future in his latest article “The Coronavirus In America: The Year Ahead”
Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Comedian Cameron Esposito’s New Memoir Is Painfully Funny
Comic Cameron Esposito talks about feeling different and alone growing up in the very straight, very Catholic, very bucolic western suburbs of Chicago in her sometimes painful, often hilarious new memoir Save Yourself
Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Former CDC Director Talks About ‘Boxing In’ COVID-19
Former CDC chief Dr. Tom Frieden talks about what needs to be done now, and going forward, to make people safe and to beat back the spread of COVID-19
Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - WBEZ’s Chicago And Illinois News Roundup: April 24, 2020
Two journalistic heavyweights, Carol Marin and Mick Dumke, take you inside the biggest stories in Chicago and Illinois this week on our Friday News Roundup.
Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Chicago Author Suggests Things To Read, Watch, Do While We Stay At Home
Hearing from doctors and epidemiologists is important, but we can’t hear from them every day. Which is why today’s RESET guest is Chicago author Rebecca Makkai. Makkai shares things to read, watch and eat while we’re sheltering in place.
Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - How Close Are We To A Covid-19 Vaccine?
Virologist and DePaul University associate professor of health sciences Sarah Connolly describes what it will take to create a covid-19 vaccine, and how far away scientists are from a human trial.
Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - How And Why Oil Is $0 Per Barrel Today
Journalist and author Antonia Juhasz explains why oil has plunged to record-low levels, and what it means for the industry, the American economy, and for you.
