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Is It Normal Yet?
By WTOP | Hubbard RadioNews
Is It Normal Yet? episodes
- In-Person School: VirginiaIn-person learning is back at all Virginia Public Schools this fall, but class is far from normal. Coronavirus cases continue to rise in the Commonwealth. With many elementary students still ineligible for the vaccine, safety concerns remain high. This week, long-time WTOP reporter Neal Augestein tells us what the first day back to school looked like this year, and how parents, teachers and students are facing the school year ahead.
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18 min - Venues, Vaccines and VariantsThe entertainment industry has a new weapon against this latest COVID-19 surge: vaccines. This week, we talked to WTOP's entertainment editor Jason Fraley about how venues, entertainers and arts patrons are trying to make live shows work as the delta variant causes a rise in cases. Fraley also discusses how the film industry plans to balance theatrical releases and streaming service doubts.
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16 min - Love in the Time of CoronavirusDespite pandemic isolation and social distancing, eros lived on and adapted to the new realities brought on by COVID-19. Lisa Bonos covers dating and relationships for the Washington Post. She joined us this week and talked about co-workers turning Zoom into a dating app, couples being OK with a long-distance relationship, and a wedding in the streets of Capitol Hill.
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16 min - Pandemics Past & PresentAs we enter the 20th month of the coronavirus pandemic, the delta variant continues to rip through the county driving up cases, hospitalization and death in its wake. Which leads to the question: will COVID-19 ever end? This week we looked to the past for an answer and spoke with Graham Mooney, Associate Professor of the History of Medicine and Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins. He explained how past pandemics mirror the coronavirus, how we eradicated the smallpox pandemic once and for all, and why we haven’t been able to do it since.
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17 min - Living with DeltaThe delta variant has changed the pandemic and our fight against it. This week, we talked to Infectious Diseases and HIV Doctor Monica Gandhi, who explains this shifting pandemic, the intricacies of the delta variant, breakthrough cases and when the U.S. may see cases go back down. The University of California San Francisco professor also provides helpful metrics and goals to look out for as the coronavirus pandemic becomes an ever-present, but manageable endemic virus.
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18 min - Mask off, Mask onMasks are once again required in the nation’s capital while indoors. The mandate comes on the heels of new Center for Disease Control and Prevention guidance, which urges everyone in locations of substantial or high COVID-19 transmission to wear masks inside — all to limit the spread of the highly contagious delta variant. This week we talk to WTOP’s Mike Murillo and John Domen about the nuts and bolts of D.C. 's mask mandate and what this resurgence of the coronavirus means for the greater Washington region.
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14 min - DC Shootings Get AttentionIn mid-July, D.C. saw a rash of high profile shootings that cast a national spotlight on increased violent crime in the District. This week, WTOP’s Investigative Reporter Megan Cloherty breaks down the continued rise in D.C. violence , shares her conversation with Metropolitan Police Department Chief Robert Contee and explains what’s at stake for the city if these shootings continue.
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14 min - Pandemic City PlanningThe D.C.-area saw an explosion of streeteries and pedestrian-only roads as city residents craved outdoor spaces during the depths of the pandemic. In many cases, these new spaces arrived under COVID-19 emergency orders, which are now phasing out. This week we spoke with the Faculty Director of the Georgetown University Global Cities Initiative and Professor of Practice Uwe Brandes, who walks us through what city planning looks like in D.C., how the pandemic jumpstarted new ways of organizing urban areas and whether streeteries and pedestrian-only byways are here to stay.
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15 min - Global Disease, Local ResponseThe coronavirus spread across the world, but it played out locally and affected people’s lives through their communities. This placed local politicians and leaders on the front lines of the pandemic. This week Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich talks about how the pandemic heightened the importance of local government, where his county stands in respect to COVID-19 and what he sees at the region’s most difficult challenges.
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15 min - July 4th Normalcy & Gov. NorthamJuly 4, 2021 marked a major step toward normalcy in the D.C.-area. Vaccinated friends and family gathered without masks or worry. Crowds filled the National Mall for fireworks. But is the pandemic over? This week Virginia Governor Ralph Northam talks about what this Independence Day means for the Commonwealth. The pediatrician-turned-politician also says many challenges still lie ahead for Virginia.
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Coronavirus has impacted every aspect of our lives. "Is It Normal Yet?" co-hosts Luke Garrett and Laura Spitalniak document the DC-area's return to public life after a year of isolation. Each week,…
a WTOP reporter breaks down how this community is getting back to normal and what normal means now. How has the DC area been impacted by the pandemic? What changes are here to stay? What have we learned about ourselves and each other? Is it normal yet? Published every Monday morning. Join us as the world reopens.