Coronavirus: More Scared or Less Scared?

Science Vs

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Education, Science, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 12.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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MINI EPISODE! Tons of new science means fresh answers on a few things that really freaked us out at the start of the pandemic: coronavirus on surfaces; ibuprofen and Covid-19; and getting Covid twice. Link to transcript: https://bit.ly/3lXu6Ca This episode was produced by Rose Rimler, Nick DelRose, and Wendy Zukerman with help from Michelle Dang and Hannah Harris Green. We’re edited by Blythe Terrell with help from Caitlin Kenney. Fact checking by Diane Kelly. Mix and sound design by Peter Leonard. Music written by Peter Leonard, Marcus Bagala, Emma Munger, and Bobby Lord. Thanks to everyone we got in touch with for this episode, and special thanks to the Zukerman family and Joseph Lavelle Wilson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, Wendy Zuckerman here from ScienceFaces.
0:03.0	So at the beginning of this coronavirus pandemic,
0:06.0	it felt like we didn't know anything,
0:09.0	which kind of meant that a lot of us were freaked out by everything.
0:14.0	But now, as we talked about last week,
0:16.0	we've got a ton of new science.
0:19.0	And some of it is actually quite reassuring.
0:22.0	So we're bringing you this quick mini-episode,
0:25.0	and we're calling it...
0:27.0	Is it more? Is it less? Serious?
0:31.0	With me, Rose.
0:33.0	And the Roseway talking about is Alperduce Outro's Rhyme Law.
0:37.0	Hi, Wendy.
0:38.0	So we're just going to quickly go through a bunch of things that we talked about earlier in the year,
0:44.0	about the coronavirus, and we're going to ask,
0:46.0	can we retire some of our fears or must we remain terrified?
0:51.0	Oh, Jay Fee.
0:53.0	And with just for brevity sake, we call that more scareder less scared.
0:56.0	Great, great. All right.
0:58.0	So what are the kinds of things that I'm going to go through?
1:01.0	One, coronavirus on surfaces.
1:04.0	How scary is that?
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