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🗓️ 26 April 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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0:00.0 | These days, there's so much news. |
0:01.8 | It can be hard to keep up with what it all means for you, your family, and your community. |
0:06.4 | The Consider This Podcast from NPR features our award-winning journalism. |
0:10.7 | Six days a week, we bring you a deep dive on a news story and provide the context and analysis that helps you make sense of the news. |
0:17.5 | We get behind the headlines. |
0:19.4 | We get to the truth. |
0:22.8 | Listen to the Consider This podcast from NPR. Hey, good morning. It's Patricia Murphy. Welcome to Saturday. This is Seattle now. |
0:31.3 | On Saturdays, we're bringing you the best from the KUOW newsroom. This week, we're looking back. |
0:37.4 | Five years ago, Washington found itself |
0:39.8 | at the leading edge of a once-in-a-century pandemic. The rapid spread of COVID and the lockdowns |
0:46.1 | that followed shaped our communities, our health, and our work for years to come. It also taught us a lot |
0:53.0 | about ourselves and what it means to be resilient. |
0:56.3 | In this hour-long special, we reflect on how the pandemic changed our region and how its |
1:01.0 | effects still show up in our everyday lives. Here's KOWOW's Gabe Spitzer. |
1:18.3 | Five years ago, Washington found itself at the leading edge of a once-in-a-century pandemic. |
1:24.0 | Things now might appear to be back to normal, but scratch the surface and you'll find changes, |
1:27.8 | large and small, to our health, our work, and our communities. |
1:33.9 | I'm Gabriel Spitzer. In this one-hour special on the pandemic anniversary, we'll hear from nurses and business owners, from parents, pastor, and an artist about the lasting ways their worlds |
1:39.8 | have changed because of COVID. And we'll meet some of the folks for whom the pandemic still isn't over. |
1:45.9 | There were several times where I've had insomnia because I was afraid if I went to sleep, |
1:50.7 | I would not wake up. |
1:52.1 | And I still want to be here. |
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