The Covid Character Test

Skullduggery

Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti

Politics, White House, News Commentary, Government, Senate, Podcasts, President, House Of Representatives, News, Victoria Bassetti, Supreme Court, Michael Isikoff, Foreign Policy, Scandels, Yahoo News, Voting, Elections, Skullduggery, Daniel Klaidman

4.0 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Former Editor-in-Chief of Time Magazine Nancy Gibbs, Yahoo News Medical Contributor Kavita Patel, and Former Health Commissioner of Baltimore Leana Wen join Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman on "Skullduggery." First up, Mike and Dan discuss Jared Kushner's shadow role in the Coronavirus Task Force. Then, Gibbs joins to talk about the ethical questions we're all facing while states begin to reopen. Finally, Dr. Patel and Dr. Wen compare how various countries have taken on the pandemic and how catastrophic a "second wave" could be.

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0:00.0	Hi, Michael Isgoth here. I'm the Chief Investigative correspondent for Yahoo News, the co-host of SkullDuggery,
0:06.8	and the host of the podcast Conspiracy Land, a six-part deep dive into the unsolved murder of DNC
0:14.4	staff member Seth Rich. I'm excited to say that Conspiracy Land has just been nominated for best
0:20.1	documentary podcast by the Webby Awards. This is where you are SkullDuggery listeners come in.
0:27.2	You can vote for Conspiracy Land to win the People's Voice Award for Best Documentary Podcast.
0:33.7	All you have to do is head over to thewebbyawards.com. That's TheWebbyAwards.com. Search Conspiracy Land and
0:43.2	place your vote. And if you haven't heard the podcast, what are you waiting for? It's just been
0:47.6	nominated for best documentary podcast. Thewebbyawards.com. Search Conspiracy Land and let's vote this thing
0:55.7	to victory. Let's say your governor lifts coronavirus restrictions in your state. You go back to work.
1:05.6	Then you get a call from a contact tracer, informing you that you were recently in close proximity to
1:11.2	an infected person. And while there's no evidence you're actually sick, for safety sake is recommended
1:18.0	you should self-quarantine for two weeks. But you need that paycheck. The rent is due. There are
1:24.4	kids to feed. Will you tell your boss and hope she will pay for you to stay home for 14 days,
1:30.4	not for being sick, but for possibly becoming sick? Will you share your condition with another
1:36.2	parent if your kids really want to play date? What if you know a coworker has been contacted?
1:42.5	Will you turn them in if they keep coming to work? SoRite's former Time magazine editor in Chief
1:48.0	Nancy Gibbs in a fascinating new piece in the Washington Post entitled Forget Swabs. We all
1:54.2	need to take a character test. Gibbs poses some of the toughest ethical questions yet about the virus.
2:00.8	Questions all of us may soon have to grapple with. We'll talk to Nancy Gibbs about these
2:05.6	character test questions. And we'll check in with our regular medical experts, Dr. Kavita Patel
2:11.3	and Lena Wen, about where the trend lines are heading in the pandemic on this episode of Skull Duggery.
2:24.5	Because people have got to know whether or not they're presidents of crock, but I'm not a crock.
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