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What Next TBD: Why Are So Many Little Kids Sick Right Now?

Slate Technology

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Society & Culture, Technology, History

4.6636 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

It’s been a rough autumn for parents of little kids, as non-COVID respiratory diseases are taking advantage of the first fall since 2019 where schools and daycares are full again, and America’s strained pediatric health care system is once again put to the test.  Guest: Katherine Wu, science writer for The Atlantic. Host: Lizzie O’Leary. Podcast production by Madeline Ducharme. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I made you think you was dream.

0:02.0

My name is Caden Sinclair.

0:04.0

Some people call us American royalty.

0:06.0

We were liars.

0:07.0

A new series on Prime Video.

0:09.0

We were happy. We wanted for nothing.

0:12.0

Based on the best-selling novel.

0:15.0

Something terrible happened last summer,

0:17.0

and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.

0:20.0

No one in my family will tell me.

0:22.7

When you're left for dead, you want answers. We Will Liars. New series, watch now, only on Prime Video.

0:30.3

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0:36.3

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0:48.3

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0:56.1

Terms and conditions apply.

1:03.4

Since my kid was a newborn, I've been in a group chat with other parents.

1:08.1

It's eight mothers, all of whom have two-year-olds.

1:12.5

We talk about our kids,

1:19.5

their tantrums, their development, the kind of mundane stuff that other adults probably don't want to hear about. Yeah, it's, it's, what do I feed my child for lunch, Halloween costumes,

1:25.8

the interspersed with my kids sick.

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