When To See A Doctor; Policing During The Pandemic
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🗓️ 5 May 2020
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Summary
Law enforcement is adapting to what it means to police during a pandemic.
A fever and dry cough are no longer the only official symptoms of COVID-19. NPR's Maria Godoy has tips for when even milder symptoms, like headaches and loss of smell and taste, should prompt you to seek testing.
Plus, scientists on a research vessel in Arctic have been isolated from the coronavirus. Some are anticipating what it will be like to return to a society in lock down.
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| 0:00.0 | Before we get started today, just a quick thing. |
| 0:02.3 | If you listen to this show, it means public radio is one of your sources for critical |
| 0:06.9 | information and updates about this pandemic. |
| 0:10.4 | Public radio is also how we stay connected when we have to be apart. |
| 0:15.3 | Today is Giving Tuesday. |
| 0:17.0 | Now, that is when nonprofits all over the US are coming together to ask for support during |
| 0:21.9 | what is for all of us a pretty tough time. |
| 0:25.2 | So we are asking you to give back to your community today in whatever way you can. |
| 0:29.9 | By supporting your local NPR station. |
| 0:33.1 | That is the only way to ensure you continue to get news and updates about this pandemic |
| 0:37.7 | stories about how people all over the world are responding and moments of levity that |
| 0:43.3 | we could all use right now. |
| 0:45.0 | Visit donate.npr.org slash daily to make a contribution today if you can. |
| 0:51.3 | The link is in our episode notes and thanks. |
| 0:55.4 | The hit to our economy has been really, really bad. |
| 0:58.9 | To get it started again before there is a vaccine raises a really stark question. |
| 1:05.0 | How many more people will die? |
| 1:06.7 | Well, you know, it is the balance of something that is a very difficult choice. |
| 1:10.4 | Like how many deaths and how much suffering are you willing to accept to get back to what |
| 1:15.5 | you want to be some form of normality sooner rather than later? |
| 1:21.0 | Dr. Anthony Fauci said Monday that all scientists like him can do is level with us about |
| 1:27.4 | the consequences of reopening. |
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