Fri. 05/22 - Is There Any Safe Way to Socialize IRL?

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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

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4.6 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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More on that study projecting 36,000 people could have been saved if the US had locked down sooner. How to safely socialize, if you choose to do so. Bots are spreading coronavirus conspiracy theories on Twitter. And, Pac-Man turns 40 today. The hottest new renewable resource on the moon: astronaut’s pee. The twenty-five-year-old skin care consultant fielding Elon Musk’s missed calls. And some recommended videos to watch this weekend. Links: Antimalarial drug touted by President Trump is linked to increased risk of death in coronavirus patients, study says (Washington Post) Hydroxychloroquine study numbers (Ryan Struyk, Twitter) Researchers: Nearly Half Of Accounts Tweeting About Coronavirus Are Likely Bots (NPR) Students wear wings to maintain social distancing in China (Gulf News) Lockdown Delays Cost at Least 36,000 Lives, Data Show (NY Times) Want to see friends? Here are the coronavirus risk factors (LA Times) Social distancing isn't going to end soon. So how do we live with it? | Gaby Hinsliff (The Guardian) Can You Socialize Safely During the COVID-19 Pandemic? (NY Times) 'Pac-Man' once felt futuristic. Now there's a new one built entirely by AI. (Mashable) 40 Years on, PAC-MAN Recreated with AI by NVIDIA Researchers (NVIDIA) Pac-Man will be playable on Twitch starting this June (The Verge) On the Moon, Astronaut Pee Will Be a Hot Commodity (Wired) Her Cellphone Number Used To Be Elon Musk's. You Can Imagine The Calls She Gets (NPR) David Lynch's daily YouTube weather reports are highly soothing and very David Lynch (Mashable) Foster The People's 'Pumped Up Kicks', Medieval Style (Geekologie) Does Hand Sanitizer Create Superbugs? (SciShow, YouTube) Why Some "Remastered" Music Videos Look Awful (Tom Scott, YouTube) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.7	welcome to the good news ride home for fr, May 22nd, 2020. I'm Jackson Bird.
0:42.5	More on that study, projecting 36,000 people could have been saved if the U.S. had locked down sooner.
0:49.1	How to safely socialize if you choose to do so.
0:54.6	Bots are spreading coronavirus conspiracy theories on Twitter, and Pac-Man turns 40 today,
1:01.9	the hottest new renewable resource on the moon, the 25-year-old skincare consultant
1:08.3	fielding Elon Musk's missed calls and some recommended videos to
1:13.4	watch this weekend.
1:17.0	In vaccine news, a new vaccine developed in China appears to be safe and effective based on
1:25.0	an early stage trial of 108 participants. Quoting the New York Times,
1:30.1	the vaccine reported today was created with another virus and adenovirus called AD5 that easily
1:36.1	enters human cells. But the virus is one that many people already have been exposed to, and some
1:41.9	experts have worried that too many already have antibodies
1:45.2	to AD5, limiting its usefulness as a way to deliver a vaccine, end quote. And earlier this
1:52.2	week, researchers in Boston published research showing that a prototype vaccine successfully
1:57.4	protected rhesus macaques from infection. With over 100 research teams around the
2:03.6	world working on a vaccine from multiple different angles, scientists are becoming cautiously
2:08.6	optimistic that a vaccine will be developed in record time. But then the challenge will become
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