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Social distancing can bring on loneliness and anxiety for many. Dr. Sudeepta Varma answers questions about how to deal with those issues during the pandemic with NPR's Scott Simon.

On this broadcast of The National Conversation,we answer your questions about the unemployment in the U.S., home schooling, testing for COVID-19 and playing sports during the pandemic.

Dr. Meilan Han, a pulmonologist at the University of Michigan hospital, and NPR science correspondent Jon Hamilton answer questions about ventilators and the way COVID-19 affects lungs.

Emergency physician Dr. Leana Wen and NPR investigations correspondent Sacha Pfeiffer answer more listener questions about pregnancy and birth during the COVID-19 epidemic with NPR's Michel Martin.

NPR sports correspondent Tom Goldman and sports medicine expert Dr. Benjamin Levine answer listener questions about the safety of exercise and playing sports during the coronavirus pandemic.

When the yield curve inverts, people worry that it's a sign we're headed for recession. But its predictive reliability also depends on the way it inverts.

Allison Schrager is an economist and journalist who visited a number of brothels to examine how we understand and deal with risk.

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Los Angeles - it's not what you think.

The homeless population in Los Angeles County has been skyrocketing. A team from USC tried to figure out why.