The Week in Philly from KYW Newsradio

We've been keeping an eye on the world of agriculture and farming throughout the COVID-19 pandemic with the help of John M. Urbanchuk, Assistant Professor and Chairman of the Agribusiness Department at Delaware Valley University in Doylestown, PA. Urbanchuk joins KYW In Depth to talk about how the ways we get food have been holding up over the past few months, the food prices we're seeing at the store, and how farmers are doing during this pandemic. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We've been fighting COVID-19 for months now, social distancing, wearing masks, washing our hands, staying at home. So, is it working? Are we winning? Why are cases in some states going up? Have we learned anything new since the coronavirus pandemic came to America? We wanted to take a step back and check in with Dr. Krys Johnson, Assistant Professor of epidemiology at Temple University to ask these questions and more -- like has protesting has contributed to the coronavirus spikes, what's going on with the national stockpile, and how concerned should we be about a second wave when we're still in the middle of the first? See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You can now drink alcohol on the Atlantic City Boardwalk. It's a temporary measure meant to help small businesses that have suffered from COVID-19 restrictions. And it's not just Atlantic City -- North Wildwood and other Jersey shore towns are running their own open container experiments. At the end of last week, Cape May's city council also voted to let people legally drink outdoors in public. But it wasn't that easy for a town that really hasn't changed all that much in the last 100 years. We reached out to Cape May Councilman Zack Mullock before an emergency meeting on the open container resolution to ask him how the town felt about it, and what he was thinking about before the vote. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Nationwide protests have called for police reform in the United States in the wake of the killing of George Floyd. But how would that happen? What would police reform look like in the United States of America? And are we truly in a moment of change in regards to policing? Teri Ravenell, Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development at Villanova University joins KYW In Depth to break down some of the issues surrounding policing in America and what reform could look like. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We're starting to get a handle on the size of the challenge presented by voting during the coronavirus pandemic. Slower final results are just the tip of the iceberg -- states across the country reported problems and growing pains during their primaries. So what can we learn from these primaries? Will we be prepared for the general election in November? Dr. Jack Santucci, teaching professor of politics at Drexel University joins KYW In Depth to talk about public health, voting, and the challenges of our time. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Unemployment continues to be front and center, Wall Street fell off a cliff on Thursday, Fed Chair Jerome Powell turned some heads, and unemployed workers are nervously looking ahead to when the extra $600 per week in unemployment benefits run out. A lot can happen in a week, so we're checking in with David Fiorenza, Villanova School of Business Economics Professor to get a handle on the economy and the news of the last seven days or so. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It has been an incredibly difficult few months for the restaurant industry. Many places had to shut their doors completely, others have had to innovate and adapt to stay afloat. Now, society is slowly opening up -- but we're still far from anything resembling what we're used to prior to COVID-19. So how have restaurants been coping? We took a ride out to the Monarch Diner in Glassboro, New Jersey to talk to the owner, Paul Tsiknakis about what his business looks like right now, the biggest challenges he's facing, and what excites him about the future. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We're getting closer to the return of professional sports as we continue to work our way through the coronavirus pandemic. Major League Soccer and the NBA are both set to return to action next month. But what about college athletics? We asked Dr. Karen Weaver, Associate Clinical Professor of Sport Management at the LeBow College of Business at Drexel University to come back to KYW In Depth to break down what the college sports landscape looks like and the big questions that universities and athletics programs need to answer before we can watch collegiate sports again. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

For the first week of June, Philadelphia was under a city-wide curfew. And that's a big deal, it's been decades at least since the last time a curfew like that was put in place in Philly. So we wanted to learn more about curfews -- what kind of power local governments have, what the courts have said, how long a city could keep a curfew in place. Dr. Michael Moreland, Professor of Law and the Director of the Eleanor H. McCullen Center for Law, Religion and Public Policy at Villanova University joins KYW In Depth to break down what a city can and can't do when it comes to enacting and enforcing a curfew. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Trying to make sense of economic data during the coronavirus pandemic is sort of like trying to look through a pair of cracked binoculars. Millions of people around the US are out of work because of the coronavirus pandemic, and then all of a sudden we also got a jobs report last week that seemed incredibly positive. But, in hindsight, was it actually? And what happens at the end of next month when the federal unemployment benefits enhancement runs out? The systems for accessing unemployment benefits around the country have clearly been tested and found wanting -- so is there an appetite for making changes? Scott Deacle, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Business and Economics at Ursinus College joins KYW In Depth to bring some clarity to the coronavirus unemployment waters. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy came on KYW Newsradio to talk about the protests over the killing of George Floyd that have swept over the nation. The Governor actually participated in a couple over the weekend. Murphy spoke with KYW's Ian Bush about the crowds of people protesting during the coronavirus pandemic, and the movement that's gained a lot of traction lately calling to defund the police. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The US has a long and disturbing history of racism and racial violence. How did we get here? It's not just one thing, it never is -- but maybe one part of the equation is not learning from history. Too often, that history hasn't even really been told. We asked Dr. Nafeesa Muhammad, Assistant Professor of History at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania to join KYW In Depth to talk about some moments in US history that saw racial violence leave African American communities devastated -- and in many cases these were communities that were punished, when it comes down to it, simply for having thrived. These are important stories that deserve more attention, and maybe learning about them will paint a more complete picture of how we got to now. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Crowds of people have showed up in cities and towns in every state to protest the killing of George Floyd by a police officer. Sadly, the George Floyd protests are not the first demonstrations in response to the killing of an unarmed African American. They’re at the front of a long line of fights for justice and human rights in history. Dr. Michael Hanchard studies social movements through history. He’s the department chair of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. And he says change has happened before when people organize to achieve a goal -- and it can happen again. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What happens when mass protests occur in the midst of a global pandemic? Dr. Annette Reboli, an epidemiologist and the Dean of Cooper Medical School of Rowan University in Camden, New Jersey joins KYW In Depth to talk about the concerns epidemiologists have right now and how to reduce risk of spreading or contracting the virus in a protest setting. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tens of millions of Americans have lost their jobs during the coronavirus pandemic. That doesn't just mean no paycheck, it also means the loss of employee benefits, things like health and dental insurance. Joe DiBella, Managing Director and head of the Employee Benefits Practice at Conner Strong & Buckelew joins KYW In Depth to talk about some really hard decisions employers have had to make during the coronavirus pandemic and the lasting effects of COVID-19 on healthcare costs and employee benefits. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We've been keeping tabs on a New Jersey lab called BioAegis because of their work with the protein Gelsolin, which they say has potential to be an effective therapy for very ill COVID-19 patients. When we found out that Dr. John Gallin, Chief Scientific Officer of the NIH Clinical Center and the NIH Associate Director for Clinical Research was also studying the protein, we asked him to join KYW In Depth to talk about what he thinks the possibilities are and why he wanted to take a closer look. We're also joined by Dr. Susan Levinson, co-founder and CEO of BioAegis Therapeutics to break down where their treatment stands in the regulatory approval process and how they see Gelsolin being used if it's approved by the FDA. More information about the NIH Clinical Center: https://clinicalcenter.nih.gov/ And about BioAegis: https://www.bioaegistherapeutics.com/ See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Can you test the air in your workplace for coronavirus? Can tweaking your office's HVAC system reduce transmission of the virus? Are certain types of buildings more at risk for spreading the virus than others based solely on their HVAC system? Michael Calabrese, Senior Project Mechanical Engineer at Burns Engineering in Philadelphia and the President of the American Society of Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning Engineers joins KYW In Depth to break down everything you need to know about how the HVAC industry is tackling the coronavirus pandemic. Burns Engineering: https://www.burns-group.com/ American Society of Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning Engineers: https://www.ashrae.org/ See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The May jobs report was much better than anyone thought it would be (at least in pandemic adjusted terms), so what's actually going on? David Fiorenza, Associate Professor of Practice at the Villanova School of Business joins KYW In Depth to talk about if the economic recovery is happening faster than expected, what new city budgets mean for the arts, and the future of infrastructure projects in the Philadelphia area after COVID-19. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Every few days, an independent music venue announces it won't be able to reopen after the coronavirus pandemic. Philadelphia is home to about 20 independent venues -- places that welcome a variety of artists and bands from up and comers to national acts to open mics and garage bands. But since the coronavirus pandemic hit, indie music venues across the country are facing closures. Some have already shut their doors for good. Hal Real, founder of World Cafe Live and WCL Education joins KYW In Depth to talk about a local and national effort going on to save independent venues and hopefully welcome fans back soon, safely. Learn more about the National Independent Venue Association here: https://www.nivassoc.org/ See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A huge amount of businesses have been forced to shutter their doors since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, and they're in rough shape right now. Right now we're seeing a lot of questions play out in boardrooms and courtrooms alike surrounding their insurance policies. Should insurance cover business losses due to a global virus pandemic? Terry Tracy, Managing Director of Conner Strong & Buckelew joins KYW In Depth to break down what's happening behind the scenes while business doors are closed, and how the coronavirus pandemic is making its mark on the commercial insurance industry. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A lot of bank accounts are looking pretty rough right now in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. And for a lot of Americans, what little money they had in savings before all this is gone or being used to survive until workplaces get the green light to open back up. It's an incredibly difficult situation. We wanted to know what the economic fallout looks like from the perspective of someone who gives financial advice for a living -- what do you do if your job is tell people where to put their money to work for the future? Fred Hubler Jr., President of Creative Capital Wealth Management Group joins KYW In Depth to talk about the questions he's getting, his concerns for the future, and the places the wealthy put their money that the average person doesn't even have access to. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Philadelphia has seen huge crowds of people demonstrating against the killing of George Floyd since the weekend. The city has also been rocked by vandalism, arson, destruction of property, and looting. In West Philadelphia, the 52nd Street corridor was just one of the areas that suffered major damage during the riots and looting over the weekend. KYW Newsradio's Community Affairs reporter Cherri Gregg was walking the streets of West Philadelphia during it all, talking to people about the damage and why it's happening. Among the things she found -- anger, and suspicion. Frustration, and a lot of heartbreak. And generations of people publicly grappling with anguish and rage. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On Monday, June 1st, a crowd of people protesting the killing of George Floyd by a police officer poured from the streets of Philadelphia down onto I-676, bring traffic to a standstill on the highway. The protesters were tear gassed by police, leading to a chaotic scene as hundreds of people tried to escape. KYW Newsradio's Kristen Johanson was covering the protest when the tear gas was deployed. She joins KYW In Depth to describe what happened. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Summer camp is normally a place where kids can get away and make friends, learn things, and get some dirt on their hands. But this year, everything is a lot different because of coronavirus. Some camps have closed for the season altogether, while others are making some big changes to try and salvage the summer. Camp America in Chalfont, Bucks County is hoping they can welcome campers back after the county moves from red to yellow and more of the restrictions are lifted. Marc Mednick is the program coordinator for Camp America. He joins KYW In Depth to talk about what this summer will look like at camp and what they're doing to make it safe for the kids and the staff. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Contact tracing went from something only a few of us were familiar with just a few months ago to being front and center in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. Dr. Perry N. Halkitis, Dean of the Rutgers School of Public Health joins KYW In Depth to break down how contact tracing has developed over the decades, what scientists learned about contact tracing from studying HIV, and the process of hiring the thousands and thousands of tracers we will need for the fight against coronavirus in the United States. If you're interesting in contact tracing in New Jersey, more information can be found here: https://covid19.nj.gov/forms/tracer See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Doctors are seeing an illness in kids that appears to be related to coronavirus. It's called Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children, or MIS-C. The CDC has issued a health advisory for MIS-C and now has a dedicated team investigating it. But there's still a lot of information that doctors don't know about it. Dr. Audrey John, the Chief of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia joins KYW In Depth to talk about what MIS-C is, how it attacks children, and how they're treating kids with MIS-C at CHOP. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

More than two million Americans newly filed for unemployment benefits last week, a staggering number on its own but just a percentage of the now more than 40 million people who have filed for unemployment since the start of the corohnavirus pandemic. Every Friday we ask David Fiorenza, Assistant Professor of Practice at the Villanova School of Business to help us tackle the economic news of the last week. Today we asked him about his analysis of the unemployment numbers, why home sales went up in April when everything else went down, his wish list for the next federal aid package, what the latest GDP revisions mean, and why it's a small win that the durable goods numbers were not quite as catastrophic as we thought. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We've been taking a look at the idea of using human challenge trials, intentionally infecting volunteers in a controlled study, to speed up development of a vaccine for the coronavirus. In Part 1, we talked to the Rutgers Bioethicist who co-authored a paper advocating for the use of challenge trials for a coronavirus vaccine. In Part 2, we talked with the founder of a website that's signing up volunteers to participate in HCTs, and one of the more than 25,000 people who have signed up to consider volunteering. But what do the scientists and researchers involved in making vaccines think about using HCTs? Dr. David Weiner, director of the Wistar Institute's Vaccine and Immunology Center joins KYW In Depth to talk about the ethics and logistics of Human Challenge Trials from the point of view of a vaccine developer. Part 1: Should HCTs be used for coronavirus? https://bit.ly/2XeyrIi Part 2: Why would someone volunteer for an HCT? https://bit.ly/3gC7iqn See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Human challenge trials are studies where people volunteer to be infected with a pathogen, like the coronavirus, hoping to speed up the development of a vaccine. In Part 1 of our series on human challenge trials, we talked to a Rutgers University bioethicist, Dr. Nir Eyal, who coauthored an article in the Journal of Infectious Diseases advocating for controlled human challenge trials to help develop a coronavirus vaccine faster. So why would someone want to volunteer to be infected with a dangerous, sometimes deadly virus? Mabel Rosenheck is a public historian and independent scholar in Philadelphia who put her name forward as someone willing to consider volunteering for a human challenge trial. Josh Morrison co-founded 1DaySooner.org, a network of more than 25 thousand people who want to participate in human trials that could speed up a vaccination for the coronavirus. Both of them are joining KYW In Depth to talk about why they'd consider joining a human challenge trial, and why more than 25 thousand people have already signed up to volunteer. Listen to part 1 of our series on human challenge trials: https://bit.ly/2XeyrIi Check out 1 Day Sooner at: https://1daysooner.org/ See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

One of the side effects of shutting society down for months is that a lot of prominent companies have declared bankruptcy, and more are likely on the verge. So what does that mean for the company, and what does it mean for the employee who's reading the financial section on their phone and suddenly finds out their company declared bankruptcy? Bruce Grohsgal, Professor in Business Bankruptcy Law at Widener University's Delaware Law School joins KYW In Depth to talk about what corporate bankruptcy does, what it means for employees, and the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic that are rippling through companies. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

For a lot of us, a solid eight hours of sleep per night was tough to get even before the coronavirus pandemic. Now there’s even more added stress and anxiety, coupled with changes to our usual routines, that could be doing a number on our sleep. Dr. Philip Gehrman, Clinical Psychologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania joins KYW In Depth to talk about why people are having trouble sleeping or experiencing crazy dreams during the pandemic, and some simple steps you can take to get a better night's sleep. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We've seen a lot of our favorite restaurants have to make some serious adjustments during the coronavirus pandemic. Unfortunately, not all of them are coming back, and for the rest of them, the dining experience of 2022 will probably look different in many ways from 2019. Dr. Ceridwyn King, Associate Professor & Chairperson of the Department of Tourism and Hospitality Management at Temple University joins KYW In Depth to talk about the biggest challenges restaurants face post-pandemic, how they're adapting, and how the industry will emerge on the other side. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

One of the industries that has gotten hammered by the restrictions put in place to fight the coronavirus pandemic is auto sales. Car dealers are starting to open up more parts of their business now, and we wanted to know what the last couple months have looked like for them, and what's next. We asked Maria Pacifico, President of the Pacifico Auto Group in Philadelphia and Tom Flynn, Pacifico Auto Group General Manager to join KYW In Depth to talk about how their business has been affected, what it's like trying to sell cars during COVID-19, and how they see the future of car dealers after we get back to whatever normal looks like. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

More incoming college freshmen are considering taking a year off because of COVID-19. But is that wise? Sara Harberson, founder of Application Nation joins KYW In Depth to talk about the pros and cons of using the coronavirus pandemic to take a year off before college and why colleges might accept one gap year request but turn down another. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Things are starting to open up and a lot of people can see the light at the end of the tunnel for when they can return to work, but what do you do if you need to work but your childcare provider isn't open yet? What if your old daycare has been forced to shutter its doors for good? Dr. Blythe Rosikiewicz, Assistant Professor of Management in West Chester University’s College of Business and Public Management joins KYW In Depth to talk about the state of childcare in the US and the scale of the troubles that childcare providers and working parents are facing because of the coronavirus pandemic. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The coronavirus pandemic has brought a lot of changes to American society. People are out of work, a lot of families are experiencing financial hardships, and in general right now most people are staying pretty close to home. We wondered if, because of these reasons and more, COVID-19 has made community college a more attractive or valuable option to a broader section of people. So we asked Dr. Joy Gates Black, President of Delaware County Community College to join KYW In Depth to talk about how the coronavirus has affected DCCC, how enrollment has changed, the steps the school is taking to ensure safety, and why community colleges might have a leg up over other forms of higher education during the age of COVID-19. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Memorial Day weekend kicks off with even more dire economic news as another 2.4 million Americans filed for unemployment last week. David Fiorenza, Assistant Professor of Practice at the Villanova School of Business joins KYW In Depth to talk about the business of summer at the Jersey Shore, if recreational marijuana could fill empty state coffers, if a new unemployment package could be coming from Congress, and how much longer new jobless claims could stay at seven figures. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Cities are bustling, densely populated places packed with people and businesses paying a premium for housing and office space to be in the center of everyone and everything. And if you visit a city right now, you can actually "see" the results of the coronavirus pandemic. Philadelphia just looks very wrong without people everywhere, like someone hit the pause button. We've made some giant changes as families, as a workforce, and as a society over the past few months. We're working at home, we're eating at home, and it looks like some of these things might not go back to "normal" any time soon. So, we wanted to know if any of these changes could end up having an impact on cities. Are people really going to keep paying New York City rent to work from their apartment? Harris Steinberg, Executive Director of the Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation at Drexel University joins KYW In Depth to talk about the American City during the coronavirus pandemic. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Work meetings, classrooms, and even happy hours are all virtual these days due to coronavirus restrictions. And maybe you've notice that video chat meetings are way more tiring than in-person ones. So why is that, and what can you do to keep from getting burnt out? Dr. John Medaglia, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neurology at Drexel University joins the podcast to break down why our brains get zapped by Zoom. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Memorial Day weekend 2020 is going to be anything but routine for Americans still under social distancing guidelines because of the coronavirus pandemic. Around here, Philadelphia officials are telling people not to go to the beach. Barbecues and cook outs are being scaled down at the very least, and instead of having the whole family over most people will be with just their immediate household to mark the holiday. And for a non-profit called Carry The Load, a group that honors veterans, first responders and their families, their biggest event of the year -- a walk that takes place around Memorial Day -- had to basically be redesigned from square one. Matt Fryman, National Relay Director for Carry The Load joins KYW In Depth to talk about how they are changing and adapting during coronavirus and how they're planning to salute American heroes virtually this year. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The insurance industry has been turned upside down by COVID-19. We wanted to learn more about how insurance companies are weathering the pandemic and the health of the industry as a whole, so we spoke to Michael and Ryan Tocicki. They are the cofounders of PREMIER Insurance Services, and they join KYW In Depth to talk about what they're dealing with day in and day out, how much the pandemic has cost the insurance industry already, and how insurance is going to change permanently because of COVID-19. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange has been closed for a couple of months as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, but it's set to partially reopen on Tuesday, May 26. As the Exchange opens its doors again, there are protocols that brokers need to follow -- and one of the protocols that stuck out to us is that people are not allowed to use public transportation to get to the trading floor. This begged a bunch of questions, like... can they do that? Is that even legal? And how is it going to be enforced? Ann Juliano, Professor of Law at Villanova University's Charles Widger School of Law joins KYW In Depth to answer those questions and more. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Drive-in movie theatres had their heyday decades ago. But there are still a handful of them around the country, including one in New Jersey. And New Jersey’s only drive-in theatre now has the green light for business to start back up again as the state tries to recover from the coronavirus pandemic. Jude DeLeonardis, co-owner of the Delsea Drive-In in Vineland, New Jersey joins KYW In Depth to talk about what the pandemic has meant for her business and what's changed in preparation for showing movies again. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Just about every aspect of everyday life has changed as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, and that includes going to see your doctor. Instead of asking patients to make the trip and sit in the waiting room, more and more doctors are using telemedicine to see and treat their patients. Dr. Erev Tubb, medical oncologist and the medical director of the Cancer Center at Inspira Medical Center Mullica Hill joins KYW In Depth to talk about how successful telemedicine has been for him and whether he thinks it's here to stay, even beyond COVID-19. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The return to some kind of post-pandemic normalcy is going to hinge on the development of a coronavirus vaccine. This is a process that can take months or years and includes several testing phases to determine if the vaccine is both safe and effective. But there is a way to speed up the process, and it depends on hundreds of people being willing to volunteer to be infected with the virus that causes COVID-19. Dr. Nir Eyal is a Professor of Bioethics and Director of the Center for Population-Level Bioethics at Rutgers University. He joins KYW In Depth to talk about the article he co-authored called for controlled human challenge trials to speed up coronavirus vaccine development. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A lot of attention has been paid to the Paycheck Protection Program. It's the giant bundle of money, billions of dollars that Congress approved that was designed to help keep small businesses afloat during the coronavirus pandemic. Once the program got started though, we started seeing news about big, publicly traded companies benefiting from the PPP, and in some cases announcing they had given back the money. So how widespread was this? How much of the assistance actually went to the places it was supposed to go? Dr. Sam Rosen, Assistant Professor in the Department of Finance at the Temple Fox School of Business joins KYW In Depth to break down the Paycheck Protection Program and where the loans went. Here's the link to Dr. Rosen's research: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3590913 See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The weather is getting nicer and a lot of people have the beach on their mind. Normally, that's just a sign of summer, but right now in New Jersey, during the coronavirus pandemic, it means some serious decision making from the state level on down. New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy joined KYW Newsradio and KYW's Ian Bush to talk about the toll COVID-19 has taken on his state, the tragic milestone of 10,000 COVID-19 related deaths in the state, two new executive orders just signed in New Jersey, and how the state is going to handle summer at the Jersey Shore. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Nick Renn says he has never seen anything in his career that compares to the coronavirus pandemic. He's a funeral director at the Leroy P. Wooster Funeral Home in Atco, New Jersey. Nick Renn joins KYW In Depth to talk about the death he sees on a daily basis, how the virus has affected him and his colleagues, and the toll the pandemic is taking on families who have lost loved ones. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

If the number of unemployed Americans made up a state, it would be the second most populous state in the US, behind only California. David Fiorenza, Villanova School of Business Economics Professor joins KYW In Depth to talk about the massive unemployment number, another month that saw retail sales hammered by coronavirus, and if we should be concerned about deflation in the months to come. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The CDC has added loss of taste and smell to its list of COVID-19 symptoms. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have been looking into this, and they've released an initial study that has been published in the International Forum of Allergy & Rhinology. Dr. Richard Doty is Director of Penn's Smell and Taste Center, and Dr. Natasha Mirza is Director of Penn's Center for Voice and Swallowing. They join KYW In Depth to break down their research on how COVID-19 can attack taste and smell. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices