Therapeutic Advice From An Infectious Disease Expert
Nerdette Recaps With Peter Sagal
WBEZ
4.6 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The coronavirus pandemic is not over, but stay-at-home orders are starting to loosen up across the country. In Illinois, people can now visit hair salons, museums, restaurants and even bars. Meanwhile, other states are seeing more cases of COVID-19 than ever before.
Which means all of this is really confusing.
Dr. Emily Landon, an epidemiologist and infectious disease specialist at the University of Chicago, has spent a lot of time thinking about global pandemics, and COVID-19 in particular. She talks with Greta about navigating the world, making personal risk assessments and whether or not you should hug your friends.
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| 0:39.9 | I'm Greta Johnson, and it is Tuesday, June 30th, which means, |
| 0:47.1 | y'all, we are halfway through 2020. And I know 2020 seems like it has lasted approximately 17 million years, but I mean, it's also kind of flown by, right? So, I don't know. I just think we should take a minute, |
| 0:55.6 | like take a deep breath, pat yourself on the back, buy yourself some flowers, do whatever |
| 1:01.2 | you need to do to congratulate yourself because we're getting through it, y'all. We're getting |
| 1:06.2 | through it. And of course, I am getting through it while on the floor of my bedroom closet, which |
| 1:12.1 | means this is another edition of the introverts guide to the good life. So, you know very well |
| 1:19.8 | that the coronavirus pandemic is not over, but stay-at-home orders are actually starting to |
| 1:25.9 | loosen up across the country, including here in Illinois, where people can actually do crazy things like go to restaurants and get haircuts. |
| 1:34.5 | Meanwhile, you've probably seen news stories that some states are seeing more cases than ever before, which means all of this is extremely confusing. |
| 1:46.2 | And that's actually where I'm going to use a number of times in the upcoming interview you're about to hear. Our guest for this episode is going to |
| 1:51.3 | help us all make sense of what's next. Her name is Dr. Emily Landon and she's an epidemiologist |
| 1:57.5 | and infectious disease specialist at the University of Chicago. |
| 2:06.4 | Now, some of you may not know Emily by name, but I am willing to bet if you live in the Chicago area and you listened to or watched the press conference in mid-March, where the mayor and |
| 2:12.1 | the governor announced stay-at-home orders, you remember Emily because she made this amazing impassioned speech. |
| 2:22.2 | I've spoken with many of my colleagues across the city and the state, and we all acknowledge |
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