Person of The Week

By TIME

TIME Senior Correspondent Charlotte Alter hosts candid conversations with the people who shape the world, about the forces that shape them. Tune in each Thursday to meet TIME's Person of the Week.<

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Person of The Week episodes:

April 12, 2020 ‘It Tortures Me That I’m Not There Helping.’ Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb on the Fight Against COVID-19... and More Stories
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1) ‘It Tortures Me That I’m Not There Helping.’ Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb on the Fight Against COVID-19
2) ‘A Way to Say, This Sucks.‘ Amid Coronavirus Lockdowns, a Nightly Howling Ritual Sweeps America
3) Hospital in Thailand Gives Newborn Babies Tiny Face Shields as Protection From Coronavirus
4) Desperate for a New Phoebe Waller-Bridge Show? Try HBO’s Romantic Thriller Run
5) Plastics Still Manage to Reach the End of the World. This Organization Aims to Hold Polluters Liable
6) Column: Republicans Could Use Coronavirus to Suppress Votes Across the U.S.. This Week, We Got a Preview
7) I’m A Doctor Who Survived Ebola. Here’s Why Coronavirus Scares Me
8) From Homeless to Health Director, Meet the Woman Fighting to Flatten the Coronavirus Curve in Ohio
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April 11, 2020 ‘I’m Very Worried.’ Hong Kong Sanitation Worker Keeps Collecting the Trash Despite Virus Fears... and More Stories
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1) ‘I’m Very Worried.’ Hong Kong Sanitation Worker Keeps Collecting the Trash Despite Virus Fears
2) Ex-Ambassador, Washington Gov. Says Trump Campaign ‘Fanning Hatred’ With New Ad
3) My Husband Died Trying to Protect His Bus Passengers From Coronavirus. Please Stay Home So His Death Isn’t In Vain
4) Hong Kong Protesters Spread Democracy Messages on Animal Crossing. Now It’s Gone From a Huge Chinese E-Commerce Site
5) Deal to Save Oil Market From Coronavirus Falters After Mexico Refuses Agree to Big Production Cuts
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27min
April 10, 2020 With Crew Member in Intensive Care, General Says Coronavirus Outbreaks Likely to Strike More Navy Ships... and More Stories
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1) With Crew Member in Intensive Care, General Says Coronavirus Outbreaks Likely to Strike More Navy Ships
2) Why Some Doctors Are Now Moving Away From Ventilator Treatments for Coronavirus Patients
3) Will Governments Let Young People Leave Coronavirus Lockdowns First?
4) How Coronavirus Fears Have Amplified a Baseless But Dangerous 5G Conspiracy Theory
5) Italian PM May Extend Lockdown to Early May to Keep Coronavirus at Bay
6) Column: How Numbers Have Taken On New Meanings in the Coronavirus Outbreak
7) Inside the Army Corps of Engineers’ Race to Build Emergency Coronavirus Hospitals
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50min
April 09, 2020 White Supremacists are Recruiting With Help From Coronavirus and a Popular Messaging App... and More Stories
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1) White Supremacists are Recruiting With Help From Coronavirus and a Popular Messaging App
2) We Fought the Good Fight Against the College Life at Home. The College Life Won.
3) ‘We Learned a Lesson.’ Zoom’s CEO Wants You to Trust the Company Again
4) Colorado Girl Who Inspired ‘Charlotte’s Web’ Medical Marijuana Oil Dies at 13
5) How New Efforts Are Recovering the Stories of People Who Were Deleted From History
6) Trump Spent Years Disparaging the Administrative State. Then Coronavirus Hit
7) ‘It’s Now That We Can Make a Difference.’ Ten Questions for ICRC’s Peter Maurer
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50min
April 08, 2020 Your Pets Are Not Likely to Get or Transmit Coronavirus. Here’s What the Experts Say... and More Stories
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1) Your Pets Are Not Likely to Get or Transmit Coronavirus. Here’s What the Experts Say
2) With Americans Focused on Coronavirus, Trump Goes After Government Watchdogs
3) Wuhan Has Reopened After a Brutal Coronavirus Lockdown. But Is China Ready?
4) Legendary Singer-Songwriter John Prine Dies From Coronavirus at 73
5) Column: An Outbreak of Coronavirus Will Test India's Healthcare, Governance to the Limit
6) How People Came Together on Social Media to Help American Travelers Stranded in Peru
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49min
April 07, 2020 Closing Schools Has Derailed the Lives of Kids Worldwide. Here's How We Can Help Them Keep Learning... and More Stories
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1) Closing Schools Has Derailed the Lives of Kids Worldwide. Here's How We Can Help Them Keep Learning
2) Why Children Seem to Be Less Affected By the Coronavirus
3) Inventors Are Whipping Up Homemade Ventilators to Fend Off a Shortage. Some Doctors Are Wary
4) No Test, Minimal Contact: How One Abortion Clinic Is Adapting to Coronavirus Concerns
5) Brazil’s President Still Insists the Coronavirus Is Overblown. These Governors Are Fighting Back
6) Wisconsin Supreme Court Blocks Governor’s Move to Delay Primary Election
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46min
April 06, 2020 Can You Be Re-Infected After Recovering From Coronavirus? Here's What We Know... and More Stories
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1) Can You Be Re-Infected After Recovering From Coronavirus? Here's What We Know
2) A Tiger at the Bronx Zoo Has Tested Positive for Coronavirus
3) Ten Tips From ‘Mars’ for Quarantined Earthlings
4) Lois Lowry in Conversation With a 10-Year-Old Reporter About Her New Book
5) A $350 Billion Loan Program Is Supposed to Save Small Businesses. But Banks Are Balking
6) America’s Devastating First Plague and the Birth of Epidemiology
7) His Home Was Destroyed. His Marriage Fell Apart. Now This Bishop Helps Others
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47min
April 05, 2020 Kim Kardashian West on Her Justice Project and Quest For Apolitical Prison Reform... and More Stories
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1) Kim Kardashian West on Her Justice Project and Quest For Apolitical Prison Reform
2) How States Across the U.S. Are Projected to ‘Flatten the Curve’
3) Challenged by Coronavirus, LGBTQ Communities Worldwide Plan Digital Pride Celebrations
4) Feeding Front Line Workers Amid Coronavirus Outbreaks, One Duck Confit at a Time
5) Gov. Cuomo Says Chinese Government Delivering 1,000 Ventilators to New York
6) How Religious Leaders Are Helping People Stay Connected in a Time of Isolation
7) Texas City Mandates People Wear Masks in Public or Face $1,000 Fines
8) Why the Coronavirus Pandemic's Effect on Carbon Emissions Isn't a Win
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47min
April 04, 2020 How Do You Teach Empathy to Your Kids? Here’s What an Expert Says... and More Stories
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1) How Do You Teach Empathy to Your Kids? Here’s What an Expert Says
2) Column: The Evil Tucked Into the $2 Trillion Coronavirus Stimulus Bill
3) Search Underway for Two Members of Kennedy Family After ‘Overturned Canoe’ Found in Chesapeake Bay
4) Trump Campaign Calls Out ‘Delusional’ Jeff Sessions Ahead of Alabama Senate Runoff
5) Inside China's Smartphone 'Health Code' System, Which Now Rules Citizens' Post-Coronavirus Life
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22min
April 03, 2020 Rohingya Refugees Brace for a New Deadly Threat—Coronavirus... and More Stories
Included in this SpokenEdition:
1) Rohingya Refugees Brace for a New Deadly Threat—Coronavirus
2) Inside a New York City Funeral Home Overwhelmed With Coronavirus Deaths
3) You Probably Read About an Uninsured Teen Who Died of COVID-19. The Truth Is More Complicated
4) California Has More Pending Coronavirus Tests Than Results - With Some Waiting 12 Days
5) Tiger King's Popularity Leads Sheriff to Reopen the Case of Don Lewis's Disappearance
6) Italy Appears to Be Flattening Its Coronavirus Curve. What Did the Country Do Right?
7) U.S. Eases Donation Restrictions for Gay, Bisexual Men Due to Blood Shortage
8) U.S. Navy Fires Captain Who Sounded the Alarm About Coronavirus Infecting Sailors on His Ship
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47min

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