When The People We Elect Don’t Talk, This Is What We Get

Government response to the pandemic has felt very piecemeal – in part because this is a public health crisis that is playing out very differently depending on where you live. Ed Yong covers health and science for The Atlantic, and he joins host Krys Boyd to talk about the unique challenges of addressing the coronavirus – and about the urgency for local, state and federal governments to figure out ways to coordinate their plans. His article is “We Live in a Patchwork Pandemic Now.”