Pushkin.

It's hard to read the news these days without asking yourself, how did we get here?

Fiasco is a history podcast for the co-creators of Slow Burn.

In our first season, Bush v. Gore, we examined an unmistakable turning point in American

politics, the 2000 election, which resulted in a high-stakes stalemate, ended with one of the most

controversial rulings in Supreme Court history. So if you're trying to make sense at the present

moment, check out Fiasco, Bush v. Gore. Listen on theHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

From Pushkin Industries, this is deep background, the podcast where we explore the stories behind the stories in the news.

I'm Noah Feldman. If you've been listening to our show this past month, you'll know that coronavirus is basically

the only thing we've been thinking about. We've tried to explore how this global pandemic

is influencing every aspect of our lives. Our bodies, of course, our economy, our civil liberties,

our emotions, even how we cook. One topic, though, that we haven't yet

covered is the question of treatment that takes on the virus directly. That may be one way for us to

solve the corona problem, although it also may not be depending on the science. We may simply

have to depend, ultimately ultimately on social isolation to make

the virus go down. So how far are we along the way to determining what drugs work here? Are the

treatments that have gotten a lot of publicity actually working? Are they plausible? Have the studies

that have been released actually demonstrated efficacy? Or are we much too early in the process to know how things are going to work out?

If we find a treatment, will it be scalable?

Here to discuss all of this with me is Dr. Angela Rasmussen.

She's a research scientist and a virologist at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public

Health. And she's worked extensively on viruses

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