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The news regarding our American battle with the new coronavirus seems to get more dire each day. I live in Florida, now considered the epicenter of the pandemic. The president is stoking conspiracy theories and downplaying the seriousness of the virus that’s already claimed almost 140,000 lives in the US alone.
Today, we welcome Sonia Shah to the show. She’s an investigative journalist and author of five books, including Pandemic: Tracking Contagions from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond. She wrote the cover story in the current issue of The Nation, “How to Define a Plague” or “It[s Time to Tell a New Story About Coronavirus–Our Lives Depend on It“.
Today’s ‘funny’ comes from our friend Lauren Mayer…
