India’s Pandemic, Internet Access, Rare Palm

Published: May 3, 2021, 8 p.m.

How did India plunge so quickly into a COVID-19 pandemic crisis? Plus, the plan to reduce America’s digital divide. And, why one health expert hopes that the end of the pandemic will also see the end of over-sanitizing our hands and homes. Also on today's show: a history buff transforms his hobby into a memorial for Americans who died in World War II, how islanders are saving an endangered palm tree, and the potential to tackle loneliness as a public health problem. (Photo Credit: Christopher Kaiser-Burnbury)