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From: WVPB Newsletter 
Sent: Friday, April 10, 2020 6:56 PM
To: Martha 
Subject: WVPB Newsletter, April 10, 2020

Special Program Featuring Prine, Withers • COVID-19 Coverage • Us & Them 

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                              WVPB Radio To Air Special Program Featuring Withers, Prine 

                              We lost two musical giants this week: West Virginia native Bill Withers and John Prine. In this special radio hour, Death, Sex & Money host Anna Sale, who grew up in the Mountain State herself, shares her conversations with these two songwriters — interviews that are filled with wisdom, beauty, and, of course, irreverent humor, music and the occasional observation about living in the Mountain State. 

                              There are two opportunities to hear it on WVPB Radio — Thursday, April 16, at 8 p.m. and a repeat Saturday, April 18, at 10 p.m. following Mountain Stage.

                              Sale is the creator and host of Death, Sex & Money, the podcast from WNYC Studios about "the things we think about a lot and need to talk about more." After debuting at the top of the iTunes chart in 2014, Death, Sex & Money was named the #1 podcast of the year by New York Magazine in 2015. Sale won a Gracie for best podcast host in 2016 and the show won a 2018 Webby for best interview show.

                              Before launching her podcast, Sale covered politics for nearly a decade. She has contributed to Fresh Air with Terry Gross and This American Life and is the author of the forthcoming book Go There: The Art of Talking about Hard Things. She grew up in West Virginia, was a part of the WVPB News Team and now lives in Berkeley, Calif.

                              WVPB Works To Hit All Angles Of Virus Coverage, Other News

                              The WVPB news team is always working to bring you a mix of news you need and stories you want to hear. Check in daily at wvpublic.org to catch the latest stories such as these:

                              4 Additional W.Va. Counties Designated As Virus Hot Spots
                              West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice says four more counties have been identified as coronavirus hot spots. In a virtual news conference on Friday, April 10, Justice outlined continued response to the virus, including the identification of more hotspots, grants to cover additional pay for frontline workers and a boost to staff to handle unemployment claims. 

                              Coronavirus Concerns Rise As Ohio Valley Meatpacking Workers Fall Sick 
                              As the number of coronavirus cases surge across the country, some meatpacking facilities have been temporarily shuttered due to workers falling ill to the virus. Three workers in Georgia have even died. With workers at some Ohio Valley facilities now testing positive for the virus, worker safety advocates are raising concerns about how adequately workers are being protected and the implications for the food supply.

                              West Virginia’s poultry and livestock industries bring in the large majority of the state’s agricultural revenue, with poultry and eggs bringing in approximately $387,884,000 in 2017. Most of that production happens in the state’s eastern panhandle in places including Pendleton County, where Steve Conrad raises turkeys for a regional cooperative.

                              W.Va.’s Nursing Homes, Long-Term Facilities Running Low On Protective Gear, Group Warns 
                              A trade group that represents West Virginia’s nursing homes and assisted living communities is raising the alarm that the state’s more than 20,000 healthcare workers that work in long-term care facilities may soon run out of personal protective equipment like masks, gloves and gowns. 

                              W.Va. Health Centers To Receive Nearly $13 Million In Federal Funds To Combat COVID-19 
                              West Virginia’s health centers will see $12,939,053 in federal funds to help fight the coronavirus pandemic. The state’s U.S. Senators Joe Manchin and Shelley Moore Capito made the announcement Thursday.

                              Over A Dozen WVU Students Test Positive For Virus 
                              At least 14 West Virginia University students have tested positive for the coronavirus, according to college officials. The school on Wednesday night said the students were in private, off-campus housing and that a contact-tracing investigation is underway. The college has been closed since March 20.

                              West Virginia Reports 5th COVID-19 Death, Adds Guidelines For Golfers, Offers More Detailed Data 
                              Now more than three weeks into responding to the coronavirus pandemic, West Virginia has confirmed its fifth death related to the virus. As part of the continued effort to slow the spread of COVID-19, Gov. Jim Justice has added another executive order outlining social distancing guidelines. State officials are now also offering more detailed information on the cases that have been confirmed. State health officials have announced an 89-year-year-old woman from Sundale Nursing home in Monongalia County has died as a result of COVID-19. That marks the second death from the virus associated with the nursing home in Morgantown. 

                              How Appalachian Tradition And Gardening Are Getting Some West Virginians Through The Pandemic 
                              As the number of coronavirus cases have quickly grown across the nation, including in West Virginia, leaving the house has become increasingly discouraged. In fact, the White House Coronavirus Task Force recently recommended either not to go or to limit trips to the grocery store to avoid large gatherings. 

                              Newly Revealed Data Shows Problems With Frontier’s W.Va. Landline Phone System 
                              A fully unredacted version of an audit of the state’s main privately run, state-regulated landline provider was made public by a science and technology website Thursday, indicating the phone company faces a serious shrinking customer and revenue base in the Mountain state. 

                              Storytellers Suzi Whaples, Adam Booth and Bil Lepp will make you laugh during this episode of Inside Appalachia. Photos courtesy of the artists.  

                              Big Laughs Are The Focus Of This Week’s Show

                       Can laughter be beneficial for our health? Research suggests that laughing can be therapeutic not only for our emotional well-being, but it can help heal us in a physical sense, too. One study from 2019, for example, tested the

                              effects that laughter therapy had on a group of elderly residents in Japan. After four weeks the patients showed improved blood pressure and heart rate. 

                              So, in light of the possible healing power laughter may have for us, this week on Inside Appalachia, we’re listening to a show we originally aired in 2016. It’s one of our favorites, and we still find ourselves laughing out loud when we listen to it. 

                              This show features three storytellers from the West Virginia Storyteller’s Guild, all of whom have won prizes across the country for their stories. They are all professional storytellers, who tell stories to audiences and teach workshops. We think the magic of a well-told story is needed now more than ever. 

                              You’ll also hear music from musicians we’ve lost to the coronavirus pandemic, such as West Virginia native Bill Withers who died at 81. Withers was born in Slab Fork, Raleigh County, where he said neighbors often pitched in to lend a hand during hard times. And we’ll hear from singer/songwriter John Prine during a performance of West Virginia Public Broadcasting’s "Mountain Stage."

                              WVPB Television Highlights

                              Baptiste, Sunday, April 11, 10 p.m. — One of the The Missing’s best-loved characters returns in Baptiste, a standalone spinoff series with Tchéky Karyo reviving his role as French detective Julien Baptiste. Tom Hollander (The Night Manager) and Jessica Raine (Call the Midwife) round out the cast of the six-part crime drama, set in Amsterdam and premiering on MASTERPIECE Mystery on WVPB!

                              Blood Sugar Rising, Wednesday, April 15, 9 p.m. — Diabetes and pre-diabetes affect more than 100 million people in the U.S., costing more than $325 billion each year. It’s now predicted that one in three children born since 2000 will develop the disease.

                              Blood Sugar Rising puts human faces to these statistics, exploring the history and science of the illness through portraits and voices of Americans whose stories shape the documentary. Together, they present a dramatic depiction of this hidden national crisis. The two-hour special also reveals new hopes: from the rise of safer and easier medical treatments to new discoveries about lifestyle and environmental factors, Blood Sugar Rising reports on those taking action to improve diabetes management and prevention.

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