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Donate today at shelter.org.uk. Hi listeners, Benjamin here. It's our first Corona pod of the year and we have a lot

to discuss. So once again, we're putting the show out as a standalone podcast. Noah Baker is

here, of course, and making his CoronaPod debut is freelance reporter Ailey Dolgin. Hello to you

both. Hi, guys. Thanks for having me. Hi, Ben. Hi, Ailey. Indeed, an awful lot to talk about at beginning of

2021. I feel like we took a break over the holidays and

the world moved at a pace that I can barely keep up with and we have to try to catch up now.

Oh, definitely. But before we get into that, Ailey, you've written for Nature News many times and

you've appeared on the podcast a bunch over the years. But for people who aren't familiar with your voice,

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