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After an outbreak in Wuhan, China, the coronavirus has now spread all over the globe since it was first detected in December. The virus has killed thousands and continues to spread rapidly across the world. NSPR aims to bring you accurate and comprehensive coronavirus coverage in the North State. We want your questions and comments about the ongoing pandemic. Ask your questions in the form below. We hope by doing this we can quickly get important information to our community and help it from spreading here. 00000176-4e34-d3bc-a977-4f7c3a3a0000

COVID-19 SPECIAL COVERAGE (MON 5.11)

Healthline

This is NSPR’s weekday show about the local and regional effects of COVID-19 in the North State. Listen each weekday at 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 a.m. NSPR will continue this special coverage as long as our community needs it. Our mission with this show is to provide accurate news and information about COVID-19 for the North State.

Today we’re diving into some of the science behind ways to both track and to predict the spread of COVID-19 — we're looking into antibody testing and it’s reliability and limitations, and we’ll look at modeling and why there are so many that are predicting different outcomes during this pandemic. 

 

Articles mentioned in interviews:

 — Dr. Gigi Kwik Gronvall, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins center for Health Security - "Developing a National Strategy for Serology (Antibody Testing) in the United States"

— Barbara Feder Ostrov, contributing writer at CalMatters - "Predicting a pandemic's path: What models can and can't do"

 

 

As always if you have a story idea or questions or comments for us call us on our message line at 433-9216 or visit our website mynspr.org.  

 

For Monday, May 11th, 2020. This is special coverage from North State Public Radio.  

Matt Fidler is a producer and sound designer with over 15 years’ experience producing nationally distributed public radio programs. He has worked for shows such as Freakonomics Radio, Selected Shorts, Studio 360, The New Yorker Radio Hour and The Takeaway. In 2017, Matt launched the language podcast Very Bad Words, hitting the #28 spot in the iTunes podcast charts.
Ken came to NSPR through the back door as a volunteer, doing all the things that volunteers do. Almost nothing – nothing -- in his previous work experience suggests that he would ever be on public radio.