Some excellent coronavirus podcast episodes, videos, and links

Evergreen content to understand the times

Everyone has their favorite source for up-to-the second news around the growing pandemic. These are selections that are biased more towards being just as useful two weeks from now as they are today.

PODCASTS

Short Wave: Coronavirus Latest: Testing Challenges And Protecting At-Risk Elderly

• NPR’s daily science podcast with the best explanation to send your family and friends for why this isn’t just like the flu.
• We all know people on social media and IRL who love saying how much more deadly the flu is and why this is an overreaction. Host Emily Kwong asks NPR correspondent Nell Greenfieldboyce what to say to those who question why this is such a big deal. Send this quote to THOSE people. Timestamp of 13:06:

“The coronavirus is getting more attention because it’s new and it’s worse than the flu. We don’t know the exact case fatality rate yet, but it’s clearly multiple times greater than that of the flu. With the flu we have antivirals, like you…