There’s coronavirus in the city’s poop
Here’s why that’s a good thing. Also, what’s the status on Washington state’s reopening? What transit authorities are doing and not doing to help protect their staff, the state of vaccine development, and a voice of the coronavirus pandemic.
Individual segments are available in our podcast stream or at www.kuow.org/record.
Coronavirus in the sewers
Like microplastics and opioids, COVID-19 is the latest societal scourge to make its way into our sewers. David Hirschberg, founder of life sciences nonprofit RAIN Incubator, says that’s a useful epidemiological indicator that could help in the fight against the novel coronavirus.
Mike Baker on what's reopening
Last week, Governor Inslee allowed some construction projects to restart. Next up could be recreational fishing and some parks. New York Times Northwest correspondent Mike Baker spoke with Bill Radke about what opens when, and why.
Are transit workers being protected?
Earlier this month statistics emerged that showed employees of New York’s Metro Transit Authority were dying of COVID-19 at three times the rate of the city’s fire and police departments. Transit agencies across the country have seen plummeting ridership even as drivers say they’re still being exposed to outsize risk with inadequate protection. CityLab’s West Coast bureau chief Laura Bliss has written about the issue.
Seattle groups work towards a vaccine
A vaccine for the novel coronavirus is a crucial part of the strategy to return to a new normal, in Washington and across the world. Labs in the Seattle area are leading the effort to find one. KUOW’s David Hyde has that story.
Voice of the Pandemic: Angela Theriault
How can you social distance if you need touch to speak? Angela Theriault is deaf and almost completely blind, and relies on a special form of sign language. KUOW’s Joshua McNichols has that story for our series Voices of the Pandemic.
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Bill Radke
Host
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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