The Current for March 31, 2020
Today on The Current:
Staff and residents at elder care homes are braced for COVID-19, after an outbreak killed at least 12 residents and one volunteer at the Pinecrest Nursing Home in Bobcaygeon, Ont. We ask what can be done to protect these homes.
For people living alone, physical isolation can be particularly challenging. We discuss what you can do to cope, and how we can all mitigate the damage of a "social recession."
The Globe and Mail's health columnist André Picard discusses how measures to fight coronavirus are working in Canada, and concerns that our next-door neighbour the United States is now the pandemic's epicentre.
If you get COVID-19, does that mean you're safe from getting it again? We talk to Dalhousie University's Jeanette Boudreau about what we know and don't know, about immunity.
Tom Power talks to drag queen Brooke Lynn Hytes about a project to help Canada's performers, who can't work while venues are closed.
Tomorrow is the first of the month, rent day for many people. But in the age of COVID-19, many renters have lost their income — and have no way to pay. If landlords aren't flexible, are we headed for a rent strike?
Writer Adam Gopnick brings us the view from the empty streets — but still busy running paths — of New York. He tells Matt Galloway how people are coping at the centre of the pandemic in the U.S.
Andrea Beechey says creating an Instagram show, #DoingitwithAndrea, has helped her cope with self-isolation
Author David Kessler explains how understanding the five stages of grief — denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance — can help us cope with COVID-19.
Tom Power talks to Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie, and Sean O'Neill of CBC's In The Making.