Social Distance

By The Atlantic

Journalists from The Atlantic document the first 15 months of the coronavirus pandemic through regular phone calls. Listen in as Dr. Jim Hamblin, the producer Katherine Wells, and the comedian and the... more

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The podcast currently has 124 episodes available.

Social Distance episodes:

April 23, 2020 Are the Celebrities Okay?
Staff writers Hannah Giorgis and Spencer Kornhaber join to talk about what the celebrities are up to and whether our fascination with them will survive this.

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22min
April 22, 2020 Why Do Some People Get Sicker?
Jim explains why COVID-19 can be fatal for some and mild for others.

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24min
April 21, 2020 ‘You Think of Things You Shouldn’t’
Jim met Bootsie Plunkett in March while filming a comedy segment for Stephen Colbert. A few weeks later she was in the hospital. She joins to talk about experiencing the terror of an ICU during a pandemic and how much a person's perspective can change in a month.

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29min
April 20, 2020 Immunity Passports
Staff writer Sarah Zhang joins Jim and Katherine to talk about the limits of antibody testing, whether we’ll be carrying around cards with our immunity status, and the lessons she’s learned from reporting on Yellow Fever.

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23min
April 17, 2020 Text Your Ex?
Amid a surge of romantic expression, staff writer Ashley Fetters advises Katherine and Jim on the psychology of reconnection, contrition, and making things right in the end.

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21min
April 16, 2020 What Will the Summer Be Like?
Staff writer Ed Yong braces Jim and Katherine for a very different summer than most of us are used to.

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26min
April 15, 2020 Are These Tweets Real?
James has been getting a lot of strange replies on social media. McKay Coppins joins to talk about modern propaganda, the history of disinformation, and where these comments might be coming from.

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24min
April 14, 2020 Something Less Bad
Jim and Katherine call Maeve Higgins, a comedian and writer who left New York a month ago for her home country of Ireland. She talks about the precarious situation of immigrants, what it’s like to live at home again as an adult, and her disastrous flirtation with self-improvement.

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25min
April 13, 2020 Where the Curve Has Flattened
What's been the difference in the parts of the country that haven't seen as bad an outbreak? Staff writer Russell Berman talks about how officials on the West Coast responded to the problem.

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23min
April 11, 2020 What It’s Like to Have COVID-19
Friends and writers F.T. Kola and Karan Mahajan have both recently recovered from COVID-19. They join to talk about immunity, survivor’s guilt, and how outcomes depend on a strange calculus of privilege and chance.

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37min

FAQs about Social Distance:

How many episodes does Social Distance have?

The podcast currently has 124 episodes available.