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Listen: $600 a Week

A fiscal cliff is coming.
- July 23, 2020
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Listen: A New Definition of ‘Clean’

The upsides and downsides of sterilizing ourselves
- July 21, 2020
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Listen: CDC Data Go Dark

The White House mandated that hospitals stop sending data to the CDC. Why?
- July 16, 2020
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Listen: Is It Safe to Fly?

How to assess risk when you have to travel
- July 16, 2020
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Listen: Our Deadliest Pandemic Mistake

How did it get so bad in nursing homes? And how do we protect them?
- July 15, 2020
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Listen: What Will It Take to Get to Herd Immunity?

One way to slow down the pandemic
- July 11, 2020
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Listen: The Sun Belt Spike

It’s March all over again.
- July 9, 2020
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Listen: The Stock Market Is ... Up?

Why Wall Street’s doing great while everything else isn’t
- July 7, 2020
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Listen: How the Coronavirus Affects Kids

The latest on a mysterious syndrome hitting kids—and what it means for schools
- July 6, 2020
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Listen: Why the World Can’t Reopen If Schools Can’t

A case for universal child care
- July 4, 2020
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Listen: How Is College Going to Work?

The good and bad plans for reopening higher education
- June 30, 2020
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Listen: The Ethical Calculus of Reopening

A medical ethicist weighs the options.
- June 27, 2020
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Listen: People Are Panic-Moving

Will the pandemic remake big cities?
- June 26, 2020
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Listen: The Air-Conditioning Question

Is indoor air safe? And do I even want to know what a toilet plume is?
- June 25, 2020
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Listen: Serenity Now

As the virus continues to spread, how do we reckon with the reality of ongoing death and disruption?
- June 18, 2020
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Listen: The Empty Promise of Vitamins

Should we all be taking something during the pandemic? Supplements and vitamins make big claims, but their benefits are doubtful.
- June 17, 2020
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Listen: An Extremely Bizarre Plan to Play Basketball

Rising case numbers, an empty theme park, and 22 teams in quarantine. What could go wrong?
- June 16, 2020
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Listen: Can We Sing?

And answers to other listener questions
- June 15, 2020
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Listen: Why the Virus Is Spreading So Unevenly

The pandemic isn’t going away, and its growth is hard to predict.
- June 9, 2020
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Listen: Would Defunding the Police Make Us Safer?

Police departments have enormous budgets. Are we getting what we pay for?
- June 6, 2020