"Now you can’t hug - this is really sucking"

Muscovites tell The Naked Pravda to the podcast, what is it in self -isolation

The author of the English-language podcast The Naked Pravda , the chief editor of the international version of "Medusa" Kevin Rotrok was self-isolated and talked with Western experts about the situation with the coronavirus in Russia (even professors from the neighboring street Kevin had to be recorded by telephone rather than in the studio).

The new coronavirus infection continues to spread around the world. In Russia, according to March 20, 253 cases of disease were identified . The latest data about all the sick, victims and recovered Medusa publishes in this table (it is regularly updated), and all the news and articles about the coronavirus are collected on a special page .

Kevin Rotrok asked the experts whether Russian medicine with the virus would cope and what scientific developments can help in the diagnosis of infection. Kevin also discussed with Muscovites who had to sit at home, how self -isolation affected their business and work.

In the release:

• 03:04 Professor of the Faculty of Medical Faculty of Yale University, Robert Himmer, explains how the coronaviral infection is revealed and how diagnostics are arranged.
• 06:11 Professor of the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Virginia Judith Twigg about the imperfection of the official estimates of the sick in Russia.
• 13:41 Director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian and Eastern European research, Honored Professor of Georgetown University Harley Balzer doubts that a new wave of import substitution due to coronavirus in Russia will be successful.

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Producer, installation - Kevin Rotrok

Music - Victor Davydov

The episode uses fragments of the compositions of The Bandit , Thinking and Umbrella Pants (Kevin Macleod), the Creative Commons license.