What's It Going To Take For Us To Become Immune?

08/28/20 • 31 min

PODCAST-19: FiveThirtyEight on the Novel Coronavirus

On this week's episode, we explore what it means that people can get reinfected with COVID-19, and how we can still develop immunity to the disease. We also explore why the approach to masks in the Netherlands is so much more lax than in parts of the U.S., even though Holland has done a better job of suppressing COVID-19.

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