Coronavirus: What Should You Do Now?

Science Vs

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Education, Science, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 12.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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The coronavirus pandemic is here, and in the U.S., this is starting to get very real. We talk to people in South Korea and Italy to see what life has been like for them. And we find out what the problem was with America’s tests — are they fixed now? And now that social distancing is on everyone’s mind, do we have evidence that it will really “flatten the curve”? We speak to public health expert Prof. Josh Sharfstein, virologist Prof. Vincent Racaniello, and epidemiologist Prof. Elizabeth Radin. UPDATE 3/17/20: An earlier version of this episode said that Hong Kong had zero deaths, but according to figures on Friday from WHO 4 people died. We've updated the episode. Here’s a link to our transcript: https://bit.ly/2QmpJUf Selected references: A look at what’s happening in Italy: https://bit.ly/3d56AA4 Josh’s paper on the testing debacle: https://bit.ly/2x3oT84 How different cities reacted to the 1918 flu pandemic: https://bit.ly/2waLYWk This episode was produced by Wendy Zukerman, Michelle Dang, Meryl Horn, Sinduja Srinivasan, and Rose Rimler. We’re edited by Blythe Terrell and Caitlin Kenney. Fact checking by Lexi Krupp. Mix and sound design by Sam Bair. Music written by Peter Leonard, Emma Munger, and Bobby Lord. A big thanks to all the researchers we got in touch with for this episode, including Dr Neeltje van Doremalen, Prof. Nigel McMillan, Prof. Jeffrey Shaman, and Prof. Stephen Morse. And special thanks to Salvatore Incontro, Gabriella Doob, the Zukerman family and Joseph Lavelle Wilson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Alright, so this is Wendy here from Science Vases. I am now working from home and my package
0:13.4	of food for the pandemic has just arrived.
0:17.0	Alright, let's open it up.
0:25.0	Wow, it's a lot of cancer chickpeas.
0:32.0	Even though we've been reporting on this for months now, I still can't believe it's here.
0:45.0	How dumb am I?
0:50.0	Yeah, so we are in the middle of a coronavirus pandemic.
0:54.0	The World Health Organization has officially called this a pandemic.
0:58.0	Over 100 countries now have confirmed cases and life for millions of us is changing really fast.
1:05.0	Attention has shifted away from China a bit to the US and Europe, as the virus is taking hold there.
1:12.0	In countries like Spain, France and Italy, new strict rules have just been brought in to keep people away from each other.
1:19.0	Italy has been hit particularly hard by the virus. Fabio Gaeta in Milan told us what was happening around him.
1:26.0	You are only allowed to go out with a kind of document in which you have to say why you are going out.
1:33.0	Wait, you're not allowed to leave the house without a document.
1:38.0	Yes.
1:39.0	The virus job in the manufacturing industry means that he can still go to work.
1:44.0	But other than that, he's only allowed to go to the supermarket and the pharmacy and police are patrolling the streets.
1:51.0	If they stop you, they will ask you, for example, where you live and based on the location they can assess if you are really going to the supermarket.
2:00.0	I thought they can find you with up to 200 euros.
2:05.0	Wow. Did you ever sort of imagine this would happen?
2:11.0	Honestly, no.
2:12.0	You have always the impression that these are stuff that happens in other parts of the world, never in the, you know, the efficient Western culture.
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