Stay ConnectedThe coronavirus pandemic has us all asking a lot of questions: How long will I have to practice “social distancing”? Will there be a cure for COVID-19? Can I ever touch my face again?
WABE health reporter Sam Whitehead and guests will try to answer those questions. He’ll talk with experts, public officials, journalists, and everyday people about how the coronavirus is affecting their lives.
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Ivan Oransky has been tracking questionable studies on COVID-19 for the blog "Retraction Watch", which he co-founded (https://retractionwatch.com/retracted-coronavirus-covid-19-papers/). He shares his tips on telling the good research on the coronavirus from the not-so-good.
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Turgay Ayer, who studies healthcare analytics at Georgia Tech, helped build The COVID-19 Simulator (https://covid19sim.org/), which predicts how the coronavirus will spread as states start to lift restrictions on movement and activity. It predicts, the more states open, the more COVID-19 will spread.
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Molly Samuel, who covers the environment for WABE, says the state's farmers were still recovering from Hurricane Michael when the coronavirus struck, forcing them to innovate.
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Dr. Andi Shane, Medical Director of Infectious Diseases at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, says physicians are still learning a lot about Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C), a new condition possibly linked to the coronavirus. Also, how the pandemic is affecting childhood vaccination rates.
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Willoughby Mariano, a reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, says the Georgia Department of Public Health's handling of coronavirus data has made it harder for people to trust public officials.
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Dr. Kathleen Toomey, commissioner of the Georgia Department of Public Health, talks about her agency's efforts to hire an army of disease detectives, to track down the contacts of everyone in Georgia who tests positive for COVID-19. She also addresses recent issues with her agency's COVID-19 data.
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Earlier in the year, as hospitals started to see more and more COVID-19 patients, many put elective procedures on hold. That put Barbara Russell in a tough spot. Her surgery was meant to hold off cervical cancer.
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Scott Steiner, CEO of Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital, shares what he thinks is behind a recent rise in COVID-19 cases in Albany and how his hospital is watching for a potential second surge in patients.
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Dr. Camara Phyllis Jones, an epidemiologist with the Morehouse School of Medicine .and the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, says COVID-19 has "ripped the sheets off the basic inequity, structured inequity by race in this country."
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Liz Essley Whyte, a reporter for the Center for Public Integrity, has obtained an internal government document that shows federal officials are worried about Georgia's ability to handle a surge of COVID-19 patients even as the state continues to loosen shelter-in-place restrictions.
More on the story here: https://publicintegrity.org/health/coronavirus-and-inequality/as-georgia-reopens-its-intensive-care-beds-are-largely-full/
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