When the novel coronavirus made its way to American shores, it landed right here in the Pacific Northwest. Now, the Seattle area is the epicenter of America’s COVID-19 outbreak. In the first episode of Transmission, a podcast about life in the heart of an epidemic, we hear from a few of the hardy souls still out and about in downtown Seattle. Then, we dig into a concept that’s starting to get more and more attention: “flattening the curve.” Professor Carl Bergstrom, an evolutionary biologist who