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welcome to the good news ride home for wednesday may 20th 2020 i'm jackson bird

u.s states are all reopening in some fashion this week,

how AI-powered biotech can speed up the vaccine development process, and COVID-19 patients

are running their own surveys to show the true effects of the disease. Plus, a live stream from Stonehenge,

Chuckie Cheese's new front,

and a British man who has turned 100,

gotten a book deal,

topped the music charts,

and been knighted all in the past two months.

All 50 U.S. states have reopened, at least in some capacity, though exactly how, varies

greatly from state to state, with some only reopening certain businesses in certain areas and

others, like Alaska, promising by the end of the week it will be, quote, just like it was prior to the

virus, according to Governor Dunlevy. Writer Paul Krugman shared some stats from reservation

site OpenTable on Twitter. OpenTable has a full data set that they're keeping updated daily

based on information from restaurants around the nation. That's very fascinating to dig through,

so I'll put a link to that in the show notes. But Krugman was looking specifically at the percent

change in reservations for this year compared to last. And he said, quote, it suggests that even

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