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:

July 16, 2020 CDC Data Goes Dark
This week, the Trump administration mandated that hospitals no longer send their data to the CDC, and the public appears to have lost access to key data. Alexis Madrigal, staff writer and co-founder of The Atlantic’s COVID Tracking Project, joins to explain what happened and why it matters as states seek to reopen.

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29min
July 15, 2020 Is it Safe To Fly?
Jim answers a listener question about plane flights. Katherine peppers him with hypotheticals. Jim unfurls a bad metaphor, again.

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18min
July 13, 2020 Our Deadliest Pandemic Mistake
Over 40 percent of all coronavirus deaths in America have been linked to nursing homes. How did it happen, and how bad could it get? Staff writer Olga Khazan joins to explain.
Read her piece on nursing homes here, and Jim's piece on herd immunity here.

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28min
July 10, 2020 What Will It Take To Get To Herd Immunity?
How does this end? Absent a treatment or vaccine, coronavirus won’t stop spreading until we reach herd immunity. But what is it?

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21min
July 08, 2020 The Sun Belt Spike
What does the surge in cases in the south and west mean for the country’s chances of containing the pandemic? Staff writer Alexis Madrigal explains.

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29min
July 06, 2020 The Stock Market is... Up?
Why Wall Street's doing great while everything else is not

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26min
July 03, 2020 Why the World Can’t Reopen If Schools Can’t
Many plans for school reopenings involve a mix of online and in-person instruction. That could have huge downstream effects on a workforce that can’t rely on children being in or out of school. Staff writer Helen Lewis shares a solution that’s too logical to actually happen.

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24min
July 01, 2020 How the Coronavirus Affects Kids
The latest on a mysterious syndrome hitting kids — and what it means for schools.

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28min
June 29, 2020 How Is College Going To Work?
Colleges and universities pack students into dorms, classrooms, and parties. Now they have to figure out how to do that in a pandemic. Staff writer Adam Harris joins to discuss what they’re planning for the fall.

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27min
June 26, 2020 The Ethical Calculus of Reopening
Cases are on the rise in twenty-five states. A vaccine is, for now, a distant dream. How do we negotiate the ethical trade-offs of the deaths to come in the meantime? Dr. Lydia Dugdale, medical ethicist and author of The Lost Art of Dying, joins to discuss.

Note: this episode was recorded on June 23rd, 2020. All numbers mentioned were accurate for that date.

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27min

FAQs about Social Distance:

How many episodes does Social Distance have?

The podcast currently has 124 episodes available.