What Has the Lockdown Accomplished?

Published: May 23, 2020, 3:34 a.m.

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It’s been a long slow journey, but it’s looking a lot like the Bay Area has indeed managed to bend the curve on this pandemic, but the question now is, what’s going to happen as we begin to reopen?

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On this edition of KCBS In Depth we consider the work that's been done to step up preparedness since the lockdown began -- from boosting hospital capacity, to buying up protective gear, to expanding testing and tracing -- and then ask how far that effort has gone toward making us safer. 

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Guests: 

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  • Dr. John Swartzberg, emeritus professor of public health at UC, Berkeley’s Division of Infectious Disease 
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  • Dr. Amesh Adalja, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
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Host: Keith Menconi 

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