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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Ariel Hart, health care reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, says Governor Brian Kemp's plans to overhaul the individual health insurance market in Georgia could affect hundreds of thousands of people and could be undone if the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down the Affordable Care Act.
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Keren Landman, a freelance reporter in Atlanta, read through thousands of emails from state officials to uncover the story of how Georgia public health officials didn't have much control over the state's COVID-19 data dashboard. Read her story here: https://www.atlantamagazine.com/great-reads/behind-georgias-covid-19-dashboard-disaster/
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Dr. Paulina Rebolledo, from Emory University, says there are a number of reasons members of the Latinx community are more likely to become severely ill from COVID-19 and many of them are structural.
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Brent Stephens, who studies indoor air quality at the Illinois Institute of Technology, says there's increasing evidence that SARS-CoV-2 can spread through tiny, floating droplets. He says there are some steps people can take to make indoor spaces safer.
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Erin Lipp, a professor of environmental health science at the University of Georgia, leads a team using wastewater to track the spread of the coronavirus. She says our waste can tell us a lot about how the pandemic is progressing.
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Jen Kates, with the Kaiser Family Foundation, says President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden have different pitches for how they'll handle the coronavirus pandemic if they win next month's election. It's an issue that's top of mind for many voters.
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Sarah Evanega, from the Cornell University Alliance For Science, says the coronavirus has spawned a pandemic of misinformation. In a recent study, she found a few important super-spreaders of falsehoods and conspiracy theories.
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Roxanne Scott, who covers the U.S. Census for WABE, says the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown the national headcount into disarray. It's sparked a legal fight that has pushed the final deadline back and forth on the calendar, and experts say that could lead to an undercount in Georgia.
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Drs. Colleen Kelley and Valeria Cantos are helping run a coronavirus vaccine trial at Emory University. They say it's not easy to get Black and Latinx people to volunteer for medical research, even though they've been the groups hardest hit by COVID-19.
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Yamil Berard, an investigative reporter with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, says dealing with the coronavirus has pushed many rural hospitals in Georgia to the brink and has forced some to close their doors. (Read more from Berard here: https://www.ajc.com/news/investigations/push-comes-to-shove-moment-for-rural-hospitals-in-georgia/OUDVXKRW7JHHDPQ7TKIZJYWUZY/)
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