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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Our Pandemic Winter

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate Podcasts

News, Daily News, News Commentary

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

There’s actually good news about this virus. Unfortunately, that doesn’t mean you’re safe. Guest: Ed Yong, staff writer for The Atlantic.  Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

When I called up Ed Young over at the Atlantic, I realized I really need a new opening question.

0:11.0

How are you doing?

0:13.0

Well, you know.

0:15.8

Fraud question.

0:16.8

I'm still here.

0:19.3

Ed writes about science.

0:20.7

At this point, he's a COVID expert.

0:23.6

But even the experts are struggling with the day-to-day right now, especially with the

0:28.1

weather getting colder.

0:29.9

I live.

0:31.2

That's as much.

0:32.8

That's as far as I will go.

0:34.2

I continue.

0:36.6

Then the official interview began.

0:38.9

I brought the kinds of probing questions you have come to expect from the show.

0:42.9

Okay, so I want to know how you, Ed Young, pandemic experts are preparing for the winter.

0:52.3

Like I had one of those moments where I was like, I should buy an outdoor heater and then

0:55.7

they were all sold out.

0:57.7

So we should be prepared.

1:02.7

I know.

1:03.7

I would love to say that covering this for the entire year gave me some sort of foresight

1:08.7

in terms of patio heaters, but that was not to be.

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