COVID-19 and the Future of Us

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🗓️ 30 November 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

How does COVID-19 impact children? Neil deGrasse Tyson, co-host Paul Mecurio, and Dr. Irwin Redlener, MD, co-founder of the Children’s Health Fund and Director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness, investigate the impact of the pandemic on our youth.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:14.0	This is Star Talk.
0:17.0	And this is going to be a COVID-19 edition where we're going to explore the future of us.
0:26.0	And just to be clear, since we're talking about COVID-19, we have to sort of put a date stamp on what's going on.
0:34.0	So we are recording this on October 28th.
0:38.0	So whatever we say, that's true on October 28th.
0:42.0	We discover things after this that could affect the information that we share with you.
0:48.0	So that's my entry disclaimer on what's going on.
0:52.0	Or rather my entry claimer.
0:54.0	So my co-host for this episode, Paul Macario, Paul.
0:58.0	Hey Neil, how are you?
1:00.0	Dave, you're special for this because you actually had COVID.
1:04.0	Yes, you asked me to get it for the episode.
1:06.0	Oh, yes.
1:08.0	You are such a role player in what we've got here.
1:12.0	I'm committed.
1:14.0	You're committed.
1:16.0	You have to be the virus.
1:18.0	Be the ball.
1:20.0	Be the virus. Your host of the Paul Macario show, which I will never forgive you for just not being inventive there.
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