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Episodes
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Seattle Now: Your brain on isolation
Keeping our distance from each other can slow spread of the virus, but the isolation we're left with poses risks to the same vulnerable groups we’re trying to protect.
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Seattle Now: Unemployed and overwhelmed
The pandemic has sent more than one million Washingtonians to the state's unemployment rolls, and many of them aren’t getting paid, even though they may qualify for the money.
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Seattle Now: 'I'm three weeks away from a man bun'
Another week, another shot at making sense of what life is like now with Crosscut's Melissa Santos and Tan Vinh at the Seattle Times.
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Seattle Now: Rent's due
Tomorrow is the first of May, and for millions of people in Washington, that means rent is due. For many hit by the economic shutdown, it's money they don't have.
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Seattle Now: Healing the healers
As the infection curve flattens, attention is turning to the doctors and nurses who have been on the front lines. We talk with KUOW reporter Deborah Wang about how Seattle's healthcare workers are dealing with the strain of a pandemic.
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Seattle Now: How's that vaccine coming along?
When it comes to the coronavirus, testing is the key to the now but a vaccine is the key to the future. We talk with KUOW reporter David Hyde about the people here in Seattle who are working hard to get that done.
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Seattle Now: Checking in
We've been on top of the curve-flattening. Can we keep it up? We check in with state medical officer Dr. Kathy Lofy about the latest on testing and what needs to happen before we can start to get back to things.
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Seattle Now: The waiting place
Another week, another shot at making sense of what life is like now with APM senior editor Phyllis Fletcher and Keita Williams, founder and chief strategist of Success Bully.
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Seattle Now: No lentils for you
The pandemic is throwing a wrench in the agriculture system that takes food from the field to your local grocery store. We dive into why you might be seeing empty shelves at the supermarket, and the effect Covid-19 is having on farm workers.
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Seattle Now: A spike in cases among Seattle's homeless
The number of coronavirus cases is flattening overall, but they're on the rise in Seattle's unsheltered community. Seattle Times reporter Sydney Brownstone breaks it down for us.
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Seattle Now: Hard choices
Until there's a cure for coronavirus, we'll have to balance public health against the economy. What are we willing to trade off?
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Seattle Now: Testing our way out
How do we begin to leave behind a general stay-home order and get back to work without another spike in infections? One key step: being able to test a lot more people for coronavirus.