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What we know — and still don’t — about the coronavirus

Post Reports

The Washington Post

Daily News, Politics, News

4.45.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Leonard Bernstein on what we know (and still don’t) about the coronavirus. Laura Meckler explains the changes schools might have to make to reopen in the fall. And Anna Fifield on Kim Jong Un, missing in action.

Read more:

What you need to know about the coronavirus.

Alternating schedules. Lunch in the classroom. Students in masks. No football. School districts will have to change things up if they want to reopen in the fall.



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0:00.0

From the newsroom of the Washington Post.

0:05.0

Hi there, is the Mayor, Marissa Lang with the Washington Post.

0:09.0

Hey, it's Dossie, order to pick your brain on the truck.

0:11.0

Hi, Wayne's, Janet Johnson.

0:13.0

This is Post Reports.

0:15.0

I'm Martine Powers.

0:16.0

It's Wednesday, April 29th.

0:21.0

Today, the lingering questions about coronavirus, the pressure on schools to reopen.

0:29.0

And North Korea is missing later.

0:34.0

So, Lenny, despite the fact that it seems like all we're doing every day is thinking and reading about coronavirus,

0:42.0

there are still a lot of things that we don't know about this outbreak and about how the virus works.

0:48.0

Or things that we thought that we knew a month ago or two months ago that now seem not quite so clear.

0:55.0

Yeah, it's a brand new disease, it's a brand new virus.

1:02.0

This is Lenny Bernstein. He covers health and medicine for the post.

1:06.0

And with the CDC adding six new symptoms to look out for, we wanted to ask Lenny some of the questions we've had about coronavirus.

1:15.0

What we're learning now and what we still don't know.

1:18.0

As we go through the pandemic, remember the pandemic?

1:21.0

Well, it seems like a century to all of us is maybe a month and a half old, depending on where you want to begin.

1:30.0

And it is showing itself to have characteristics that we're not expected and to have characteristics that are pretty dangerous to us.

1:43.0

So what are some of the surprising things that doctors have seen in recent weeks in terms of how this virus affects people's bodies?

1:54.0

I think one of the most surprising things is that some people appear to be able to walk around or to be hospitalized with relatively mild symptoms,

2:05.0

not be feeling like they're short of breath, not be feeling like they're gasping for air until suddenly they crash and they find themselves in a very critical situation and very short of air.

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