Testing; Half of New Yorkers are Worried about Hunger; COVID-19 in NYC By the Numbers; At Home with Jim Gaffigan
The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 21, 2020
Coming up on today's show:
- Gregg Gonsalves, co-director of the Global Health Justice Partnership and an assistant professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health and contributing writer to The Nation, discusses the state of testing, how it needs to be expanded, and why the federal government and state governments need to cooperate.
- Since the coronavirus crisis began, the number of people turning to our emergency food network has increased by 50%. Leslie Gordon, president and CEO of Food Bank for New York City, talks about how food banks are meeting the moment, and takes calls from listeners.
- Jake Dobkin, co-founder of Gothamist, where he's been the de facto numbers-cruncher in chief for all things COVID-19, explains where we are in the trajectory of the virus, and what it means to be "on the plateau" when over 5,000 new cases per-day are being reported.
- Comedian Jim Gaffigan shares his coronavirus lockdown parenting stories of sheltering in place with his wife and five children in their NYC apartment and their nightly YouTube series "Dinner with the Gaffigans."
