National News Roundup; Your Unemployment Questions Answered; How Viruses Like COVID-19 May Work; What Hospital Chaplains Are Facing
The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 6, 2020
Coming up on today's show:
- White House reporter for the Associated Press and political analyst for MSNBC/NBC News, Jonathan Lemire talks about the federal response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including guidelines and relief proposals, and the latest on the 2020 elections.
- 10 million people who have filed for unemployment over the last two weeks. Richard Blum, member of The Legal Aid Society’s Employment Law Unit, whose practice focuses on wage and hour law and discrimination law, takes questions from listeners about how best to navigate the overburdened system and gives advice on how to get the assistance you need.
- Siddhartha Mukherjee, physician and author of several books including The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Scribner, 2010), and The Gene: An Intimate History (Scribner, 2016), now the basis of a PBS special, talks about what we know, and don't know yet, about COVID-19.
- Rev. Dr. Beth Glover, Episcopal priest who serves as corporate director of Pastoral Care and Education (CPE) at NewYork-Presbyterian, talks about what hospital chaplains are facing during this surge in COVID-19 cases.
