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Putting COVID-19 News in Context
Emily Oster, economics professor at Brown University, author of severalbooks and creator of the website COVID-Explained, talks about her new website which helps to contextualize COVID-19 related news, and takes a closer look at COVID in children, and parenting during the pandemic.