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🗓️ 22 October 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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0:00.0 | You're listening to Shortwave from NPR. |
0:06.3 | Hey there, Maddie Sifaya here. |
0:07.8 | Today with NPR Science Descoresponet Maria Gadoe, hi, Maria. |
0:11.4 | Hello, Maddie. |
0:12.8 | Maria, we're talking today because you have spent a good chunk of this pandemic. |
0:16.7 | Reporting on ways people can try to say safe from the coronavirus. |
0:20.7 | Yeah, I'm basically the pandemic news you can use reporter. |
0:25.2 | You know, since the early days, I've been researching things like mask wearing, do it, by the way. |
0:30.0 | How to interact safely outside your house or what to do if you live with somebody who gets ill, you know, all kinds of fun topics. |
0:36.9 | And that's not easy, right? |
0:39.0 | Because we are learning so much every day. |
0:42.0 | You know, like I feel like if I take a week off reporting on coronavirus, I've missed so much. |
0:47.0 | Oh yeah, absolutely. |
0:48.0 | 100%. |
0:48.8 | We went from not knowing this virus even existed to having hundreds and hundreds of scientific studies on it. |
0:54.8 | And like months, yeah, which means that a lot of what experts are saying is being refined as they learn more about the virus, including how it's spread. |
1:03.5 | Oh, absolutely. |
1:04.6 | And you know, one real sticking point is how much transmission occurs from very, very small particles they can linger in the air. |
1:11.9 | They're called aerosols. |
1:14.0 | Scientists have been debating how the coronavirus spreads since the pandemic began last spring. |
1:19.5 | Those conversations have been heating up recently as some experts argue that aerosols may in fact be playing a bigger role in its transmission than previously thought. |
1:28.8 | And you know, just in the last few weeks, the CDC has finally updated its guidance to note that indeed some transmission happens this way. |
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