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I'm Denver Mac. On today's show, DoorDash delivers an IPO and Reddit CEO slams TikTok.

But first, masking coronavirus.

President Trump yesterday put Mike Pence in charge of coordinating America's response to coronavirus

and also continues to express optimism that we won't experience the same sorts of

outbreaks that other countries

outside of China have been experiencing, including Italy, Japan, and South Korea.

I don't think it's inevitable.

I think that there's a chance that it could get worse.

There's a chance it could get fairly substantially worse, but nothing's inevitable.

One thing that didn't really come up during that press conference, though, was face masks,

possibly because they've become very hard to come by, including those high-end ones normally used by medical professionals.

My local drugstore here in central Massachusetts has been sold out for weeks.

Amazon has warned against price gouging on masks, and there are lots of reports of face mask hoarders.

Yeah, that's a thing.

Face mask hoarders.

Why it matters is that while the CDC doesn't yet recommend that healthy people should

wear masks in public, plenty of them are.

And that's creating shortages for the people who really need them.

Medical professionals, dental professionals,

and people sick not only with coronavirus,

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