
It's not goodbye for podcast -- it's the start of a new chapter
CNN
"Coronavirus, Fact vs Fiction," the podcast I'd been hosting for the last 14 months, posted its last episode on Friday. That might come as a surprise, or even a shock, to some of our loyal listeners, who came to rely on its daily dose of scientific fact blended with calm assurances.
But, almost 300 episodes later, we felt it was time. Time because the course of the pandemic in the United States has been experiencing a slow but palpable shift, thanks in no small part to the vaccines available to us, and we want to create stories that mirror this change for our audience. So we decided to turn the page on the old chapter, and start the next one. Origin story
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