Calculating COVID-19 Health Risks; How ‘Unbundling The Police’ Would Work

Calculating COVID-19 Health Risks; How ‘Unbundling The Police’ Would Work

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Also, Derek Thompson, senior editor at The Atlantic, writes that the police are being asked to do many functions. Host Jeremy Hobson speaks with Thompson about how unbundling some of those functions from the police may improve policing. At least 22 states are now seeing spikes in COVID-19 cases. Yet in most cities, officials continue to ease restrictions despite warnings from some physicians that it might be happening too quickly. Host Robin Young talks to University of Massachusetts Dartmouth biology professor Erin Bromage about calculating risk.