Cold-Weather Pandemic Advice From An Infectious Disease Expert

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🗓️ 2 October 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

The seasons are changing but the novel coronavirus is still with us. And that’s left us with a lot of questions about how to safely socialize with friends and family when the weather makes small outdoor gatherings less viable.

So we called up Dr. Emily Landon, an epidemiologist and infectious disease specialist at the University of Chicago. (She also gave Nerdette listeners some therapeutic advice about the pandemic back in June.)

And now that autumn is upon us, Landon explains how we might approach the upcoming holiday season (including Halloween!) and the great indoors.

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0:32.3	From WBEZ Chicago, this is Nerdette. I'm Greta Johnson. It is somehow October, which means you don't
0:39.6	need me to tell you that winter is coming. And depending on where you are, you're seeing signs of this,
0:45.8	right? It's starting to get chilly at night. Some of you have already seen snow for some horrible
0:50.4	reason, which means you're probably packing in the next month, which is much
0:55.4	outdoorsy stuff as you possibly can, just because that's the safest way to see people during
1:00.2	this pandemic, which means I have a lot of questions about how to get through the next six
1:05.8	months in Chicago once it really does start to get cold without completely losing my mind. And you probably do too.
1:13.2	Like how are we going to even do holidays? Lucky for us, our guests today can help us figure that out.
1:19.4	Her name is Emily Landon. She's an epidemiologist and infectious disease specialist at the University of Chicago.
1:25.3	You might remember we had her on her app back in June, approximately 17 million years ago.
1:30.3	And now just seem like a great time to check back in.
1:34.0	Emily, hey.
1:35.3	Hey, how are you?
1:36.7	Good.
1:37.2	How are you?
1:38.1	I'm good.
1:38.9	I'm good.
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