How Covid-safe can schools be?
Vaccine updates, school safety in the time of Covid, and a pod of grey whales take temporary residence in Puget Sound
What is the safest way to open schools during the pandemic given that most teachers, staff, and students have now been vaccinated? KUOW education reporter Ann Dornfeld shares where the state is at in reopening efforts, and then Dan Klein from the Institute for Disease Modeling shares a model that assesses the risk and how to minimize it. Also, gray whales are going way out of their way to visit Puget Sound. John Calambokidis from the Cascadia Research Collective discusses why. King County Executive Dow Constantine answers listeners' calls.
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King County Executive Dow Constantine 03.02
King County Executive Dow Constantine joins Bill Radke to discuss Covid case rates, vaccination updates, reopening schools, and more.
An Update on the Reopening of Schools 03.02
KUOW education reporter Ann Dornfeld joins Bill Radke to discuss the latest developments in reopening schools across Washington.
A Model for Minimizing Risk of Covid at Schools
Seattle's Institute for Disease Modeling has come up with a model that gets at how to reopen schools and minimize risk of Covid transmission. Dan Klein, a senior researcher at the Institute for Disease Modeling, talks with Bill Radke about the model and what it can predict.
The Mystery of the Grey Whale
In recent decades, an adventurous group of gray whales have made their way into Puget Sound, but until recently, researchers didn't know why. Cascadia Research Collective senior research biologist John Calambokidis talks with Bill Radke about what he's learned.
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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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