Tested

Tested

By Dave DeWitt, Leoneda Inge, Will Michaels, Charlie Shelton-Ormond, Jason deBruyn, Rusty Jacobs, Naomi Prioleau, Celeste Gracia, Kamaya Truitt, Anisa KhalifaSociety & Culture
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Tested episodes

  • Trends, Data, And Reopening

    Today, Governor Roy Cooper extended his stay-at-home order until May 8. He also laid out a more specific, three-phase plan for re-opening North Carolina's economy.

    12 min
  • Trends, Data, And Reopening
    Today, Governor Roy Cooper extended his stay-at-home order until May 8. He also laid out a more specific, three-phase plan for re-opening North Carolina's economy. In very simple terms, Cooper wants to see decreases or sustained leveling in four trends, twice as many tests conducted per day and twice as many people who can trace cases, and a larger supply of N-95 masks and gowns. As benchmarks are hit, restrictions will be lifted. It's part of an effort to get the 700,000 or so North Carolinians
    12 min
  • Racial Disparities

    About 21% of the people who live in North Carolina are African-American, but black people make up 39% of COVID-19 cases in the state - and 37% of the deaths.

    13 min
  • Racial Disparities
    About 21% of the people who live in North Carolina are African-American, but black people make up 39% of COVID-19 cases in the state - and 37% of the deaths. These disparities did not begin with this pandemic. The racial differences in health care are well-documented by all manner of researchers, including those in the Department of Health and Human Services. We speak with Benjamin Money, the Deputy Secretary for Health Services at DHHS about how COVID-19 has put a new focus on the longstanding
    13 min
  • The South

    Governor Roy Cooper says he is still weighing goals and will make a plan about what needs to happen before re-opening areas of the state.

    16 min
  • The South
    Governor Roy Cooper says he is still weighing goals and will make a plan about what needs to happen before re-opening areas of the state. Cooper's gubernatorial colleagues in the south are moving ahead, however, without similar considerations. Yesterday, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp said he was lifting restrictions across state within the next week on businesses from restaurants to hair salons to bowling alleys. Other governors in South Carolina and Tennessee are following suit. Cooper is
    16 min
  • Critical Care

    Bevin Strickland is a nurse and doctoral student a UNC Greensboro. She's 47 years old, and a single mother of three.

    13 min
  • Critical Care
    Bevin Strickland is a nurse and doctoral student a UNC Greensboro. She's 47 years old, and a single mother of three. When the COVID-19 outbreak hit New York, Strickland immediately explored ways she could help. After looking to volunteer, her friend Eric suggested that she sign a two-month contract to work as a nurse at Mount Sinai Hospital in Queens. WUNC reporter Liz Schlemmer has been talking to Strickland by video calls since she landed in New York City two weeks ago. In this episode,
    13 min
  • The Politics Of Reopening
    To this point in the pandemic response, political partisanship hasn't been a major issue in North Carolina. But that fight is likely to come. Soon. Governor Roy Cooper is, of course, a Democrat. The state House and Senate are majority Republican. This is not news. It led, last summer, to a stalemate over the state budget. While factions are developing over when to re-open the state's economy, the next big fight ahead will likely be over money. North Carolina has received about $2 billion in
    13 min

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Tested is a hard look at how North Carolina and its neighbors face the day's challenges. Hosted by journalists Dave DeWitt and Leoneda Inge.