Coronavirus Latest: Testing Challenges And Protecting At-Risk Elderly

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🗓️ 13 March 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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There's a lot going on with the coronavirus. To keep you up to speed, we'll be doing more regular updates on the latest about the pandemic. Today, NPR science correspondents Jon Hamilton and Nell Greenfieldboyce discuss challenges in testing for the virus and how COVID-19 affects the elderly.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Shortwave from NPR.
0:04.4	Hey everybody, Emily Quank here.
0:07.6	So obviously the biggest story in science is the coronavirus and rising cases of its
0:12.8	disease COVID-19.
0:14.9	In the coming weeks we're going to cover it a little more with regular updates on the
0:18.5	latest news and science.
0:20.6	And today to help us do that, we are lucky to have not one but two colleagues from the NPR
0:25.6	Science Desk.
0:27.1	Correspondent Nell Greenfield-Boys.
0:29.1	Hey Nell.
0:30.1	Hi Emily.
0:31.1	And correspondent John Hamilton.
0:32.6	Hey John.
0:33.6	Hi.
0:34.6	So coronavirus, it's already impacting American society and you're each going to focus on one
0:39.6	part of the coronavirus story this week.
0:42.5	No, what do you got for us?
0:44.2	So one of the things I've been thinking about a lot is who is most at risk of severe illness
0:49.7	from this virus.
0:51.5	And while there's a lot we don't know about exactly how deadly it is overall, we do know
0:56.6	there are some things that we need to do for the most at risk people to keep them safe.
1:01.9	Yes.
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