Fold your way out of the coronavirus fight
Help solve the puzzle of the virus – from your couch. When your elderly parents can’t stay inside. And we chat COVID with two Puget Sound officials.
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Fold-It
What’s the best thing you can do to help during this pandemic? The answer is still “stay at home.” But while you’re there, University of Washington scientist Brian Koepnik has a game for you. It’s called Fold-It, and you could help find therapies to treat the disease.
My 71yo mom is a nurse. I'm worried - she's not.
Many folks with older parents have been begging them to stay home. KUOW community engagement producer Kristin Leong is no different – but her mom is. Kathy Leong is a medical-surgical nurse at a Bellevue hospital, very close to the nursing home at the early epicenter of the US coronavirus outbreak. Kristin made a radio piece recently called “My 71-year-old mom is a nurse on the front lines of COVID-19. I’m worried. She’s not.”
Coronavirus in the southern Puget Sound
United States Representative Derek Kilmer represents Washington’s 6th District (the Olympic Peninsula and Bremerton), and so does Dr. Anthony Chen, in a way. Doctor Chen is the Director of Public Health for Tacoma-Pierce County. They took your calls about how the south Puget Sound is handling the outbreak.
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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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