Q & A: Dentists, Reopening Businesses, And Contact Tracing
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🗓️ 2 May 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
- NPR's senior business editor Uri Berliner and epidemiologist Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo discuss reopening nonessential businesses
- NPR's health policy reporter Selena Simmons-Duffin on the logistics of contact tracing
- Dentist Dr. Suhail Mohiuddin on when a dental problem is urgent enough for an in-person visit
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Kelly McEvers and this is coronavirus daily from NPR. |
| 0:05.2 | Today, Adentist talks about how his practice has changed and how patients can tell if a |
| 0:10.9 | problem is urgent enough to justify an in-person visit. |
| 0:14.8 | Also, some states are allowing non-essential businesses to reopen, others say it's still |
| 0:19.6 | too soon. |
| 0:20.6 | Contact tracing is a key tool to help decide, and Pierce Selina Simmon's stuff and explains |
| 0:26.0 | how it works. |
| 0:27.7 | Make health experts and journalists answer your questions in these excerpts from the |
| 0:31.7 | radio show, the national conversation with all things considered. |
| 0:36.1 | Here's NPR's Michelle Martin. |
| 0:38.9 | More than 30 million people have filed for unemployment in just six weeks, and as weeks |
| 0:44.4 | of stay at home orders continue and jobless numbers climb, state governments and businesses |
| 0:49.2 | are looking for ways to get people back to work. |
| 0:51.9 | In Georgia, for example, a number of businesses have been able to reopen their doors this |
| 0:55.6 | week under specific guidelines. |
| 0:57.5 | Regina Herschel has a hair salon in Atlanta. |
| 1:00.5 | Regina, hi. |
| 1:01.5 | Hi, how are you? |
| 1:03.2 | I'm good. |
| 1:04.2 | How are you doing? |
| 1:05.2 | I'm doing well. |
| 1:06.2 | So you were closed for a month. |
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