From Camping To Road Trips: Here's How Experts Rate The Risks Of Summer Activities
Life Kit
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🗓️ 30 May 2020
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is NPR's Life Kit, I'm Andrew Limbaugh. |
| 0:05.6 | Summer is here, but it's looking a little different, thanks to the current coronavirus |
| 0:10.0 | pandemic. |
| 0:11.2 | So many of us are aging to get outdoors, but what's safe and what's risky? |
| 0:16.0 | Fellow Life Kit host Allison Aubrey looked into this and shared some findings with morning |
| 0:20.0 | edition steved green. |
| 0:22.0 | So in case you missed that conversation, here it is. |
| 0:27.8 | 2019 is certainly not gone, but it can't stop summer, right? |
| 0:32.8 | So how do we weigh the risks of some of our favorite summertime activities, whether it's |
| 0:38.5 | camping, maybe gathering in the backyard, maybe date the beach or the pool? |
| 0:42.7 | Well, let's get some answers to those questions from NPR's Allison Aubrey who's been looking |
| 0:46.4 | into it. |
| 0:47.4 | Hi, Allison. |
| 0:48.4 | Hey there, David. |
| 0:49.4 | So you've been talking to public health experts. |
| 0:50.8 | What did you find out? |
| 0:51.8 | That's right. |
| 0:52.8 | Well, I have asked about everything from the risks of dining out, going to bars, camping, |
| 0:57.7 | boosting a barbecue, taking a road trip, going to the beach. |
| 1:01.0 | And there's a lot of consensus of which scenarios are safe. |
| 1:05.8 | And David, I am not much of a poet, but I have put together something snappy here to kind |
| 1:10.5 | of sum up the consensus. |
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