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Lockdown love stories: 'It's been really discouraging online,' so some singles are turning to matchmakers Apr 08, 2021

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With bars and restaurants in a weird place, society basically turned on its head and most people social distancing for the past year, the dating scene has been kind of depressing for a lot of people. Kristi Price is a matchmaker and dating coach, she joins KYW Newsradio In Depth to talk about some really interesting shifts in the people who have reached out to her, why they took the plunge, and why more young people are turning away from online dating during the pandemic.

Check out Kristi Price's website here: https://kristidprice.com/

The father & son team that tested if groceries can spread COVID-19 Apr 07, 2021

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Early in the pandemic there were a lot of stories and anecdotes about people wiping down all their groceries before putting them away, because no one really knew how much risk they posed for spreading COVID-19. This has led to some interesting research and not just for what it proved about the threat some groceries like fruits and vegetables found in open-air bins of area grocery stores posed for spreading the virus. Equally fascinating is who did the research! Dr. Vishal Shah is a microbiologist and Associate Dean of the College of the Sciences and Mathematics at West Chester University, and he teamed up with his son Anand Shah, a student at Charles F. Patton Middle School in Kennett Square to put together some impressive research that showed it was highly unlikely for the virus to spread from the surface of these fruits and vegetables. Dr. Shah joins KYW Newsradio In Depth to break down how this project came together and what it was like to see his son take the reins and do some science.

Check out their research here: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsfoodscitech.1c00064

The 'spirit' of our social media posts changed in the pandemic Apr 07, 2021

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The pandemic changed how we live, where we go, what we do, and it even changed what we post on social media. That's according to some really interesting research on how what people are sharing on social media now compared with a year ago in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. Dr. Jason Thatcher is one of the co-authors of the study, he's the Milton F. Stauffer Professor in Information Systems at Temple University's Fox School of Business, and he joins KYW Newsradio In Depth to break down the study, how the research started and what the team found about how COVID-19 changed what people share on social media.

Link to the research: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0268401220310331?via%3Dihub

Learning loss, desocialization, and getting back to school Apr 07, 2021

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We are seeing more and more children return to in person learning across the country, and pretty much everyone agrees it is really important that that trend continues. So what's it going to take to keep kids safe in school? What are some of the problems that public schools specifically are facing as a result of the pandemic? What problems that were around even before COVID-19 still need to be addressed? Avenel Joseph, Vice President of Policy at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation joins KYW Newsradio In Depth to break down the progress we've made getting kids back in school, and the ripple effects that are yet to come after one of the hardest years we've ever been through.

Lots of us are asking the internet how to sleep better, and other search trends from Google Apr 05, 2021

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How much would a person know about you just by looking at your search history? The answer is probably a lot -- so we wanted to check in with Molly VandenBerg, a Google technology expert to ask about what people have been Googling now that we're a year into the pandemic, and what people are doing to spring clean their routines.

How will we know when the pandemic's beaten back? Apr 05, 2021

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Vaccination levels are rising across the country, and hopefully some of the hesitancy that we've been hearing about is being beaten back. We wanted to check in with Dr. Atul Grover, Executive Director of the Association of American Medical Colleges Research and Action Institute to ask about the questions he's getting about the vaccine, how we're doing at getting shots in arms, and a new question that we get to start spending some energy on now: how will we know when we've won?

The pandemic changed what we want from cars, and how we buy them Apr 02, 2021

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Are the days of browsing the lots and test driving cars in the rearview mirror? The car buying experience has gone through some major changes during the coronavirus pandemic, and that's not the only thing that changed. What we want from our vehicles has shifted, too. Geoff Cudd, founder of findthebestcarprice.com joins KYW Newsradio In Depth to break down the trends he's watching in car buying and how the relationship between Americans and their cars has shifted over the past year.

All the vaccine news: Q&A with Dr. Paul Offit, Dir. of the CHOP Vaccine Education Center Apr 01, 2021

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There's been so much breaking news about vaccines in the last week -- most of it good but not all. Pfizer says its vaccine is highly effective six months after the second shot. The Pfizer and Moderna shots have been proven safe for adolescents. J&J tossed millions of doses because of a manufacturing error. And the CDC says that Pfizer and Moderna's vaccines work just as well in real life as the trials, and that they are 80% effective after just the first dose. These headlines raise a lot of questions, like, if Pfizer's first dose is so effective, do we need both doses? Could kids be vaccinated before school starts in the fall? We brought these questions and more to Dr. Paul Offit, Director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Professor of Pediatrics at Penn's Medical School.

Vaccination equity: "We're doing a better job. I don't think we're doing a perfect job." Mar 31, 2021

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A year into this pandemic, shots are going into arms and more than a hundred million Americans have gotten at least one dose of a vaccine. That's incredibly positive news, but it doesn't tell the whole story -- while equitable distribution is improving, we still have a long way to go. Dr. Cedric “Jamie” Rutland, Pulmonary and Critical Care Physician with the American Lung Association joins KYW Newsradio In Depth to talk about where we are right now in the effort to get vaccines to the people who need them, and his ideas about how to improve equitable distribution of vaccines in communities of color.

Why deepfake videos keep criminologists up at night Mar 31, 2021

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Deepfakes are videos that are created to look real, but aren't. Some of them are really convincing, and they're a big concern for criminologists, who worry about everything from what could happen on a grand scale if a damaging fake video of a president or head of state goes mainstream, to how a deepfake could destroy reputations and lives on a personal level. Dr. Robert D'Ovidio, Associate Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies at Drexel University joins KYW Newsradio In Depth to break down the tools people use to make deepfakes, how experts figure out what's real and what isn't, and which ways deepfakes are being used are most alarming for people who study criminology.

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