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Welcome to the good news ride home for Thursday, May 28th, 2020.

I'm Jackson Bird.

Is the coronavirus more dependent on super spreaders than we thought?

Research indicates possible biological markers to determine how severely an individual will react to COVID-19,

and how the decline of local journalism is taking a toll on America's small towns.

Plus, will we be able to trust our memories of this time?

Cannibalistic dinosaurs and why oranges are sold in red mesh bags.

The United Kingdom is rolling out a new testing and tracing initiative today, quoting the New York Times.

People with potential COVID-19 symptoms will be tested, and, if positive, be asked to list everyone they have

been recently in close contact with for at least 15 minutes, and those people will, in turn,

be contacted and asked to isolate themselves for 14 days. The country's health secretary,

Matt Hancock, said this week that the program aimed to replace a nationwide lockdown with individual isolation

or smaller localized restrictions if new cases emerge. The move comes a day after France's

parliament approved the deployment of a contact tracing app that has set off an intense debate

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