In early March, the Trump administration claimed that a million COVID tests were available, but nobody was keeping tabs on the results. Alexis Madrigal, Atlantic staff writer and co-founder of the Covid Tracking Project, talks about how he stumbled into leading the charge to track the virus, and what the lasting cultural impact of this virus will be.
Host & Executive Producer: Jonathan Hirsch
Managing Producer: John Asante
Producer: Tanner Robbins
Editors: Catherine Saint Louis, Vikram Patel
Engineer: Scott Somerville
Music by Matt McGinley & Blue Dot Sessions
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