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Coronavirus and the Struggle with Empirical Reality

Slate News
Slate News
Episode • Apr 14, 2020 • 10m

In this Trumpcast Plus preview, Virginia Heffernan talks to Laurie Garrett, a Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist covering pandemics, about the typical multi-tiered responses of politicians to viruses, epidemics and the climate crisis, covering Ebola, and how religion still ties into the way some epidemics are managed.

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