Demand for coronavirus testing continues to go up and the supplies continue dwindle, as we hear stories of long wait times and even longer waits for results. But that doesn’t seem to be a problem for sports teams that are testing players every day and getting results in 24 hours. Louise Radnofsky, sports reporter at the WSJ, joins us for how sports teams are handling testing.

Next, over 32 million Americans are receiving unemployment benefits and the Labor Department says the nation has 5.4 million job openings. That being said, Ivanka Trump and the White House rolled out the “Find Something New” campaign, a jobs initiative urging people to pursue jobs training and career paths that don’t require a college degree. Toluse Olorunnipa, reporter at the Washington Post, joins us for how the program was slammed as tone-deaf during the pandemic.

Finally, COVID parties are not a thing. You might have seen stories about people throwing parties to intentionally infect others with the coronavirus, but if you dig deeper into the stories, they quickly fall apart. To be clear, people can and are getting sick by partying in close quarters, but they are not throwing COVID-specific parties. Gilad Edelman, senior writer at Wired, joins us for more.

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