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Biden’s ‘Test to Treat’ Program Rolled Out This Week, Questions Still Remain Mar 11, 2022

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President Biden’s ‘test to treat’ program started rolling out this week to praise and also many questions. People will be able will be able to walk into participating pharmacies or clinics and if they test positive for Covid, they will be given a free course of Pfizer or Merck’s antiviral pills. Questions are still floating around about supply of pills, rapid tests, and concerns over drug to drug interactions. Katie Shepherd, health and science reporter at The Washington Post, joins us for more.

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As Demand Picks up Post-pandemic, Many Are Feeling the Health Worker Shortage Mar 10, 2022

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More Americans are reporting that they are starting to feel the health worker shortage. Demand in health services is going back up as people are getting into their regular checkup routines, but they are finding it difficult navigating canceled appointments or delayed surgeries. More than one in five people said they skipped annual checkups and getting back hasn’t been so smooth. Tina Reed, healthcare editor at Axios, joins us for how the health worker shortage continues to affect us.

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Coasting Culture: Some Employees Taking It Easy Rather Than Quitting Mar 09, 2022

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The Great Resignation saw many people choose to leave their toxic jobs for better ones or leave for jobs that offered a better work-life balance. But not everyone left and some just opted to take it a little easier and work less. Employers struggling to retain workers are just having to deal with it. The Hustle culture is over and the challenge for employers is to figure out how to navigate changing workplace attitudes. The new hybrid work life might be one that accommodates both types of employees. Aki Ito, senior correspondent at Business Insider, joins us for the new coasting culture at work.

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Study Shows Covid Infection May Cause Changes in the Brain Mar 08, 2022

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A new study looking at brain scans of people before and after contracting Covid shows that they had more loss of gray matter and tissue damage than those who did not get infected. Notably, the study looked at those that were older and had more mild infections, meaning they did not have to go to the hospital. The shrinkage and damage was primarily in areas associated with smell. Pam Belluck, health and science writer at the NY Times, joins us for more.

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Frustration and Confusion Mounts for Parents Waiting for COVID Vaccines for Children Under 5 Mar 07, 2022

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For months many parents have been waiting for Covid vaccines for their children under 5. Instead there has been growing confusion and frustration at shifting timelines, delays, and poor communication from the FDA. Also in question is whether the vaccine for very young children will be a two or three dose protocol. Pfizer and Moderna say more data for this age group will be coming very soon and that authorization could hopefully come by April or May. Caroline Chen, healthcare reporter at ProPublica, joins for what's holding up the vaccine for kids under 5.

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Teachers Experiment With Alternatives to Letter Grades Mar 04, 2022

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Educators have been experimenting with new grading systems since before the pandemic, but when everything switched to remote learning and students were having a tough time keeping up, many teachers did away with the traditional A-F grades. Some experiments include relaxing penalties for late or incomplete work and retaking exams once an understanding of the material had been established. Valerie Strauss, education reporter at The Washington Post, joins us for the hunt for a fairer grading system.

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CDC Analysis Estimates 140 Million People in the U.S. Have Been Infected With Covid Mar 02, 2022

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With cases of Covid dropping and mask mandates going away, it does seem that we are moving to the next phase of the pandemic, but how many people have actually been infected with coronavirus? A new analysis of blood tests that reveal antibodies from infection estimates that 140 million people have come down with it, that’s 43% of the country that has had a natural infection. Dan Keating, health reporter at The Washington Post, joins us for this and how a majority of children have also been infected.

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Teenage Patients Are Reporting the Onset of Tourette’s-Like Tics, Could Social Media Play a Part? Mar 01, 2022

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We are seeing doctors around the world reporting that patients are coming in with the sudden onset of Tourette’s-like tics. Particularly they are seeing more teenage girls which do not fit the typical profile of someone with Tourette’s and more interesting, many of them seem to share the same outbursts, leading some to believe that social media could be behind it. Theories have gone around suggesting it could be mass psychogenic illness or another condition called functional neurological disorder. Helen Lewis, staff writer at The Atlantic, joins us for what could be behind these new-style tics.

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Not Just About Covid Anymore, Workers Don’t Want to Go Back to the Office Feb 28, 2022

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As Covid infections are dropping, Americans are going back to bars, movies and sporting events but one place they aren't going back to is the office. Employers are doing everything they can to get their workers back, but many have found a work-life balance that they don't want to let go of. It's not even about Covid as 61% of remote workers are doing so by choice. Callum Borchers, On The Clock columnist at the WSJ, joins us for why workers just don't want to go back.

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U.S. Housing Market Making It Harder to Rent Than Buy a Home Feb 23, 2022

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In this unrelenting U.S. housing market, renting a home could be harder than buying a home. With a high demand and continuing low supply we have seen rental prices for single-family homes rise 7.8% last year. With people being priced out of owning a home, many resort to renting, only to find the same problems… a rental listing pops up, and an immediate flood of applications for that property. Allison McNeely, personal finance reporter at Bloomberg News, joins us for more.

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