Stay At Home Now; Electing GOP Women; The Pandemic Slows Lead Poisoning Prevention; Health Care Workers Call In
The Brian Lehrer Show | Nov 17, 2020
On today's show:
- James Hamblin, staff writer at The Atlantic, lecturer at Yale School of Public Health, co-host of Social Distance, and author of Clean: The New Science of Skin, talks about how Americans should behave, and whether politicians should mandate stay at home orders, while we wait for a vaccine.
- The political horizon for women has broadened on both sides of the isle, as a record 35 women will represent the Republican Party in the next congress.  Olivia Perez-Cubas, communications director for Winning For Women, which advocates and organizes to elect Republican women, and former communications director for Senator Marco Rubio (R FL),
talks about how this was achieved and what it means for the GOP. - Christopher Werth, senior editor in WNYC's Narrative Unit, talks about how the city's focus on fighting the pandemic has slowed down the resources once used to prevent childhood lead poisoning.
- Health care workers call in to report on how hospitals, nursing homes and other medical care facilities are doing as COVID-19 cases are climbing again in the tri-state area.
