The State of COVID-19 Rapid Testing in 2022; 51 Council Members in 52 Weeks; How Today’s Inflation Problem Is a ‘Mirror Image’ of the 1980s; Neil deGrasse Tyson

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jan 4, 2022

Coming up on today's show:

  • Dr. Michael Mina, former Harvard epidemiologist and current chief science officer for eMed, a company that verifies at-home test results, discusses the landscape of rapid testing in the United States, why they're so hard to find, and how to use them correctly.
  •  The majority of the New York City Council members are new to the office and are part of a class that is the most diverse and progressive in city history. Over the next year Brian Lehrer will get to know all 51 members. Up first, Councilmember Christopher Marte shares his priorities for District 1, which covers much of southern Manhattan including Chinatown, Tribeca, and Lower East Side.
  • Neil Irwin, chief economic correspondent at Axios, talks about how Fed chairman Paul Volcker reversed high inflation in the 1980s, and whether that strategy would work for today.
  •  Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist and director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History, a host of the StarTalk Radio podcasts, one of the authors of A Brief Welcome to the Universe: A Pocket-Sized Tour (Princeton University Press, 2021), and the author of Cosmic Queries: StarTalk's Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going (National Geographic, 2021), discusses 2022's space-related events.

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

 

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