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Are the Celebrities Okay? Apr 23, 2020

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Staff writers Hannah Giorgis and Spencer Kornhaber join to talk about what the celebrities are up to and whether our fascination with them will survive this.

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Why Do Some People Get Sicker? Apr 22, 2020

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Jim explains why COVID-19 can be fatal for some and mild for others.

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‘You Think of Things You Shouldn’t’ Apr 21, 2020

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Jim met Bootsie Plunkett in March while filming a comedy segment for Stephen Colbert. A few weeks later she was in the hospital. She joins to talk about experiencing the terror of an ICU during a pandemic and how much a person's perspective can change in a month.

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Immunity Passports Apr 20, 2020

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Staff writer Sarah Zhang joins Jim and Katherine to talk about the limits of antibody testing, whether we’ll be carrying around cards with our immunity status, and the lessons she’s learned from reporting on Yellow Fever.

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Text Your Ex? Apr 17, 2020

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Amid a surge of romantic expression, staff writer Ashley Fetters advises Katherine and Jim on the psychology of reconnection, contrition, and making things right in the end.

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What Will the Summer Be Like? Apr 16, 2020

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Staff writer Ed Yong braces Jim and Katherine for a very different summer than most of us are used to.

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Are These Tweets Real? Apr 15, 2020

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James has been getting a lot of strange replies on social media. McKay Coppins joins to talk about modern propaganda, the history of disinformation, and where these comments might be coming from.

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Something Less Bad Apr 14, 2020

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Jim and Katherine call Maeve Higgins, a comedian and writer who left New York a month ago for her home country of Ireland. She talks about the precarious situation of immigrants, what it’s like to live at home again as an adult, and her disastrous flirtation with self-improvement.

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Where the Curve Has Flattened Apr 13, 2020

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What's been the difference in the parts of the country that haven't seen as bad an outbreak? Staff writer Russell Berman talks about how officials on the West Coast responded to the problem.

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What It’s Like to Have COVID-19 Apr 11, 2020

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Friends and writers F.T. Kola and Karan Mahajan have both recently recovered from COVID-19. They join to talk about immunity, survivor’s guilt, and how outcomes depend on a strange calculus of privilege and chance.

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