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N.J. State Police Authorized To Collect Masks, Ventilators From Private Firms

By editor • Apr 3, 2020

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:

Homecare Workers Find Themselves Unemployed Because Of COIVID-19

By editor • Apr 3, 2020

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

Until the crisis, June Freeman was doing a vital job. She provided home health care in San Diego. Six days a week, she visited a man with dementia.

JUNE FREEMAN: So I walk him in the park, feed him, doing puzzle with him.

Faster Coronavirus Testing May Help To Ease Results Backlog

By Rob Stein • Apr 3, 2020

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:

Are enough Americans following national guidelines to reduce the spread of the coronavirus?

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

Well, Deborah Birx, a key member of the White House pandemic task force, says no.

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)

The U.S. Currently Has An Abundance Of Chicken Wings

By editor • Apr 3, 2020

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:

Encore: Remembering Her Grandmother, A Best Friend And Mentor

By editor • Apr 3, 2020

This episode of StoryCorps originally aired in 2015.

Chloe Longfellow, 32, remembers her close relationship with her grandmother, Doris Louise Rolison, who taught her to cook in a kitchen that also served as a classroom for Rolison's life lessons.

"It's really surprising the amount of life lessons you can learn in a kitchen if you have the right teacher," Longfellow said.

Trump Reelection Team Aims To Use COVID-19 To Rewrite Narrative

By Franco Ordoñez • Apr 3, 2020

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:

The people working to get President Trump reelected are planning for how they are going to have to address the coronavirus pandemic on the campaign trail. They see an opportunity to rewrite the narrative and double down on Trump's America First agenda.

Ecuador's COVID-19 Outbreak Is One Of South America's Biggest

By John Otis • Apr 3, 2020

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:

A Must For Millions, Zoom Has A Dark Side — And An FBI Warning

By Shannon Bond • Apr 3, 2020

Updated at 11:22 a.m. ET

Dennis Johnson fell victim last week to a new form of harassment known as "Zoombombing," in which intruders hijack video calls and post hate speech and offensive images such as pornography. It's a phenomenon so alarming that the FBI has issued a warning about using Zoom.

Like many people these days, Johnson is doing a lot of things over the Internet that he would normally do in person. Last week, he defended his doctoral dissertation in a Zoom videoconference.