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Camp Fire Continues to Burn as Search and Rescue Efforts Continue
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Atlantic Science Writer Ed Yong on Coronavirus

The guest is journalist Ed Yong, a staff writer who covers science for The Atlantic. He has written before about the likeliness of a viral pandemic. He is now writing about COVID-19. In his most recent article, he writes about what we do and don’t know about the coronavirus and how it’s transmitted. He’ll talk with Terry Gross about that and why COVID-19 is truly a modern pandemic, and how it will end.see more
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Atlantic Science Writer Ed Yong on Coronavirus

The guest is journalist Ed Yong, a staff writer who covers science for The Atlantic. He has written before about the likeliness of a viral pandemic. He is now writing about COVID-19. In his most recent article, he writes about what we do and don’t know about the coronavirus and how it’s transmitted. He’ll talk with Terry Gross about that and why COVID-19 is truly a modern pandemic, and how it will end.see more
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Camp Fire Continues to Burn as Search and Rescue Efforts Continue

52 min
Michael Krasny
at 9:00 AM
A rescue worker uses a cadaver dog to search for human remains at a mobile home park that was destroyed by the Camp Fire on November 14, 2018 in Paradise, California. (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

The Camp Fire in Butte County has killed at least 56 people with more than 100 still missing. In this segment, we'll get an update on efforts to contain the fire and hear how the community is faring, as evacuees pitch tents and park RV's in various parking lots around Chico.

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Guests:

Alex Emslie, reporter, KQED News

Lily Jamali, co-host and correspondent, KQED's The California Report

Stephanie Hayden, co-founder, The Oroville Hope Center

Penny Spaletta, lost her home to the Camp Fire

Brandi Richard, public affairs officer, External Affairs Office of the Regional Administrator, FEMA Region IX

Charles Cecil, forensic anthropologist, San Francisco's Office of the Medical Examiner

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