The Latest COVID News; More on Cuomo and Nursing Homes; High School Students' Year; Conducting a Symphony in a Pandemic; YMCA Sells Camps

Coming up on today's show: 

• Ravina Kullar, epidemiologist and infectious disease expert, discusses the latest COVID-19 developments — from the suspension of use of the AstraZeneca vaccine in several European countries to the news that officials in many states in America are loosening pandemic restrictions despite the danger of new variants.
• Bill Hammond, Empire Center’s senior fellow for health policy and former NY Daily News reporter and columnist, talks about the data he uncovered on nursing home deaths in New York State and on what we are learning about Gov. Cuomo's decision-making in responding to the pandemic.
• Mira Gordon, program lead at the Miseducation Podcast and a senior at Barnard College, 10th-grader Lauryn Matin and 11th-grader Kelvin Agyemang talk about their challenges and triumphs over the past year, from online learning to being a friend and getting along with parents and siblings.
• Shauna Quill, executive director of the New York Youth Symphony, talks about the difficulties of bringing musicians together to rehearse and perform while COVID still lurks, and how they've managed over the past year.
• Recently, the YMCA of Greater New York announced it was putting three of its summer camps up for sale, citing budget cuts because of the pandemic. Amina Kennedy, former camper and counselor with the YMCA of Greater New York, and now a member of the board of managers for all of its camps as well as a full-time teacher, talks about how meaningful the camps were in her life, and her concern about what the loss of these affordable camps could mean for the city's low-income families. 

Transcripts are posted to the individual segment pages as soon as they are available.