Science is here to save Halloween

Tomorrow is Halloween, and one of us is in costume. Today we’ll look at some new research on the (minimal) SARS-CoV-2 viral load carried on fun-sized candy packaging. Good news: The results look promising for trick-or-treating tomorrow. But first, we need to talk about facts, the election and bias in the media — which might be more frightening than Halloween right now.

Here’s a list of everything we talked about today:

• We’re still digging into these early voting statistics.
• “Kamala Harris knows things no vice president has ever known” from The Washington Post
• “Trump administration vetted political views of 274 celebrities for botched $265 million Covid ad campaign, House lawmakers say” from CNBC
• “Wilbur Ross Remained on Chinese Joint Venture Board While Running U.S.-China Trade War” from Foreign Policy
• “Turkish Bank Case Showed Erdogan’s Influence With Trump” from The New York Times
• Our interview with George Lakoff from back in 2017 — here’s a full transcript.
• “Halloween and COVID-19: Scientific Study on the Coronavirus Risk of Trick-or-Treating” from SciTechDaily
• And here’s some more information from that study.

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