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Welcome to the science podcast for May 29, 2020. I'm Sarah Presby. First up this week,

staff writer Jennifer Cousin-Frankl talks about a rare

inflammatory response in children that has appeared in a number of coronavirus hotspots.

Then we have researcher Julian Dowdwell. He talks with producer Megan Cantwell about tracing the

retreat of Antarctica's glaciers by looking at the ocean floor. Finally, Kiki Sanford interviews

Danny Dorling about his new book, Slowdown, the end of the Great Acceleration, and why it's

good for the planet, the economy, and our lives. Now we have staff writer, Jennifer Cousin-Frank. She wrote this week about an inflammatory condition

that's shown up in kids in coronavirus hotspots. It's rare and it seems to be treatable,

but researchers are really racing to find out more about this. Hi, Jennifer. Hi, thanks for having me.

I think up front and probably at the end, too, we should give people a little bit of reassurance here.

I know when I saw some of the headlines starting to pop on this topic about kids seeing symptoms that were kind of scary, I was like, okay, things are getting even worse, but it's really pretty rare.

Yeah, there are two things to remember about this.

First of all, we don't know exactly how common it is, but it does appear to be really quite rare. Yeah, there are two things to remember about this. First of all, we don't know exactly how common it is, but it does appear to be really quite rare. And the other thing to remember is

that it seems to be really pretty treatable. There are some children who have died or who have

needed really, you know, intensive care in hospitals, but most of these kids get treatment

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