I was talking to my therapist this week and I was like yeah coronavirus is crazy

I'm seeing folks here like making a little coronavirus pod and like hanging out with people and he was like

You know Sam people need that people need people so I get it like no one can be perfect in this

I think at the start of the pandemic everyone was like

Never leave your house never do anything do not breathe and drink lysol. That's it and

Like do not bring up that lysol with me right now. You know how I feel about

Hey y'all this is sounds like daddy this week on the show

We answer your everyday questions about coronavirus. All right, let's start the show

Hey y'all your listening to it's been a minute from NPR

I'm Sam Sanders and this week on the show we are keeping calm

And carrying on in the midst of this pandemic

It is what like week a million of this thing

And just getting through life every day it can be a lot even just going out for a walk or going to the grocery store

Can be extremely anxiety inducing

So we asked a bunch of you our listeners to send me your everyday coronavirus questions

The kind of questions that in any other context might seem mundane

To help us out we called up a friend of the show Maddie Sophia

It might just I'm like shortwave hosts. That's that's the real role I'm playing right here. I think your answers will be more important

If you say that you have a PhD

Honestly in my own family I found that that is not the case Sam

But yeah, let's try let's see if people listen to it. I'm joined by CDC chief Maddie Sophia

All right, Maddie is not the CDC chief, but she is the host of NPR's daily science podcast shortwave

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