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Our Deadliest Pandemic Mistake

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The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Health & Fitness, News, Science

4.6935 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Over 40 percent of all coronavirus deaths in America have been linked to nursing homes. How did it happen, and how bad could it get? Staff writer Olga Khazan joins to explain. Read her piece on nursing homes here, and Jim's piece on herd immunity here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi Jim.

0:05.0

Hi Kevin.

0:07.0

So I got tested this morning.

0:10.0

Oh, why are you feeling sick?

0:13.0

No.

0:14.0

Um, high-risk contact?

0:16.0

No, but I, well, no, but I want to visit some friends.

0:21.0

And I wanted to know if I have it right and I also got an

0:25.8

anybody test but they told me I won't get my results back for seven to ten days

0:30.7

for the antibody test or for both? Both. Yes, okay, I'm so glad you

0:36.0

mentioned this because I'm hearing this from a lot of people that is just

0:40.3

that makes a test almost non-functional. I know.

0:43.0

I talked to the doctor who did it.

0:45.0

I was like, why are we even bothering?

0:46.0

And he was like,

0:48.0

exactly.

0:49.0

It's useful for economic research purposes as we're studying.

0:52.0

Right. You know, but that degree of last. academic research purposes as we're studying.

0:53.0

You know, but that degree of lag is,

0:56.4

that's a major scandal and it's happening everywhere

0:58.8

across the country and I think a lot of people are bragging

1:00.9

about how many tests we're doing when in fact it's sort of like it's

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