In It Together

Arun Rath speaks with Jill and Jackie Schon, the mother and daughter team behind the Paint Bar in Newton. The first paint and sip establishment in the northeast, it was forced to go virtual back in March. But so far, business is booming.

Tonight, we're highlighting two sides of re-opening Massachusetts.

Arun Rath speaks with Michael Curry, the Deputy CEO of the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers, about the challenge of getting buy-in from communities of color when it comes to an eventual coronavirus vaccine and coronavirus care in general.

The number of cases and hospitalizations tied to the coronavirus is increasing. Host Arun Rath speaks with Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, the Medical Director of the Special Pathogens Unit at Boston Medical Center, about this newest data and whether we should be concerned as the state begins to more broadly re-open.

Back in the spring, speech pathologist Linda Wrinn began quarantining away from her family. But her husband Bill and their daughter made it a five-star experience for her. Host Arun Rath last spoke with the Wrinn family back in June just as Linda was about to come out of quarantine to live back with her family. It’s been a couple months of relative normal for the Wrinns. He checks back in with them.

Host Arun Rath checks in with reporter Tori Bedford for her regular series,“The Check In.” In this episode, we hear an update from a mom of four who’s also working from home. School is starting in their household and things are getting hairy as everyone figures out the new normal this fall.

Arun Rath speaks with Dr. Joseph Allen from Harvard's Healthy Buildings program. The program aims to keep buildings optimized to fight the spread of coronavirus. But waffling by the CDC on airborne transmission and other aspects of the virus has made life harder for Allen and his fellow researchers.

The state's Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, DESE, is pushing back against school districts that are starting remotely, but have low coronavirus transmission numbers within their communities. DESE says they want a timeline of when exactly these districts will get students back into the classrooms.

Watertown Public Schools is one of these communities. Host Arun Rath speaks with Watertown Superintendent Dr. Deanne Galdston and John Porz, chair of Watertown’s School Committee, about this pushback.

Arun Rath speaks with Victoria Helberg of Respond Inc., a domestic violence prevention agency based in Somerville, about the hurdles the pandemic has put between survivors and those who could help them.

The show must go and according to GBH's Executive Arts Editor Jared Bowen - it is, though it looks different.

Host Arun Rath speaks with him again about what's been happening with arts, music and theater in Massachusetts over the last few months.