Calling into question how long people are immune after being infected with COVID-19, we have a 25-year-old man that is the first American confirmed to have been infected twice with coronavirus. We know this is a reinfection because the virus was genetically different the second time around and his symptoms were also worse. Karen Weintraub, health reporter at USA Today, joins us for what we know about this reinfection.




Next, some more information on the men accused of trying to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. They were also planning on “taking out” another political leader, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam. The organizers of these plans wanted to make them big, saying they needed 200 men to storm capitol buildings. The FBI has said that neither governor was ever at risk. Pilar Melendez, reporter at the Daily Beast, joins for these foiled plots.




Finally, as we move through the pandemic and everything has become more politicized, we are seeing trust in government science erode. President Trump has hailed some therapeutic treatments as cures, which they are not, and some government agencies like the FDA have stumbled too. But trust in the science needs to be maintained especially when it comes to taking a vaccine once it is approved. Joel Achenbach, science reporter at the Washington Post, joins us more.

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