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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Joy Fernandez de Narayan, who manages the 'street medicine' program for the Mercy Care clinic, says the program that offers care to people experiencing homelessness in Atlanta has had to change to keep providing services during the pandemic.
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Dr. Jermaine Jackson, who runs Piedmont Healthcare's Pulmonary COVID-19 Recovery Clinic, says some people spend months dealing with the consequences of a coronavirus infection.
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Dr. Audrey Arona, who leads the health district that serves Gwinnett county, says her office has seen high demand for COVID-19 vaccines even though supplies remain low. (Audio updated 1/21/21)
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Vivian Ho, health economist at Rice University, says there's a relationship between a state's decision to issue strict lockdown measures early in the pandemic and how many COVID-19 deaths ultimately occurred there. More here: https://www.bakerinstitute.org/research/state-restrictions-and-covid-19-death-rate/
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Thomas Friedrich, professor of virology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says a new, more transmissible variant of the virus that causes COVID-19 could have big implications for the pandemic in the U.S. if its starts spreading widely in the country.
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Dr. Bruce Y. Lee, professor of health policy and management at the City University of New York, says it's no small feat to get vaccines from where they're produced to where they're administered--but it's a critical part of any vaccination effort.
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Anna Barry-Jester, a reporter with Kaiser Health News, says public health leaders are facing more public scrutiny during the pandemic, and that's pushed many to leave their jobs. She chronicled many of their stories with colleagues from KHN and the Associated Press. Read more here: https://khn.org/news/article/pandemic-backlash-jeopardizes-public-health-powers-leaders/
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We’ve talked to a lot of people this year in Georgia who’ve been personally touched by the pandemic: they've been sick, they've lost loved ones. As we approach the end of 2020, we’re listening back on some of those conversations.
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As we approach the end of 2020, we’re revisiting some of the conversations that touch on what COVID-19 has exposed about the world we live in and how we can live safely in it.
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Dan Wakin, an obituaries editor at the New York Times, says his paper has been working for months to tell the stories of some of victims of the pandemic in a project called "Those We've Lost." View the project here: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/obituaries/people-died-coronavirus-obituaries.html
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