Fighting Europe’s second wave of COVID-19, and making democracy work for poor people

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🗓️ 3 September 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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First up this week, Contributing Correspondent Kai Kupferschmidt talks with host Sarah Crespi about rising numbers of coronavirus cases in Europe. Will what we’ve learned this summer about how the virus is transmitted and treated help prevent a second peak? Read all of our coronavirus news coverage. And as part of a special issue on democracy, Rohini Pande, a professor in the department of economics at Yale University, joins Sarah to discuss her review that asks the question: Can democracy work for poor people? Read more from the special issue on democracy. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast Download a transcript (PDF). [Image: Mattias Berg/Flickr; Music: Jeffrey Cook] Authors: Sarah Crespi; Kai Kupferschmidt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:05.5	Welcome to the science podcast for September 4th, 2020.
1:13.2	I'm Sarah Crespi.
1:14.6	First up this week, contributing correspondent Kai Cooper-Schmidt talks with me about a second wave of coronavirus in Europe.
1:21.5	And as part of this week's special issue on democracy, Rohenny Pandy joins us to talk about her paper that asks this intriguing
1:29.2	question, can democracy work for poor people?
1:36.1	Now we have contributing correspondent Kai Cooper Shmint. He wrote this week about a second wave
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