Does surviving COVID-19 guarantee that you won’t get it again?
How likely is herd immunity to save us? How can you call BS on bad coronavirus information? And how else can the government help bolster individuals, and thus the economy?
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Dr. Helen Chu, antiviral clinical trials
You may have heard UW Medicine Dr. Helen Chu’s name first as the doctor who correctly identified the arrival of COVID-19 on American shores. Now she’s pioneering another front of the fight against this disease: clinical trials of an antiviral drug called remdesivir.
Carl Bergstrom, COVID-19 fake news
Misinformation has been spreading almost fast as the novel coronavirus: so much so that the WHO has declared this an “infodemic.” To hear more, we spoke to University of Washington biology professor Carl Bergstrom, who studies the flow of information among organisms – including us.
Pramila Jayapal, Paycheck Guarantee Act
The one time $1200 payment from the federal government will be arriving in some people’s bank accounts this week. But United States Representative Pramila Jayapal says more is needed, in a way that supports businesses as well as individuals. Her new paycheck guarantee act would provide some of that support; she answered those and other questions.
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Bill Radke
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Bill hosts Week In Review and Words in Review. After starting with KUOW as a University of Washington student in 1985, Bill was KUOW's morning host in the '90s and the creator of past show, Rewind, a news-satire show heard on KUOW and nationwide on NPR. Bill moved away to Southern California to host American Public Media's Weekend America and Marketplace Morning Report and returned to KUOW in 2012.
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