The news regarding our American battle with the new coronavirus seems to get more dire with each passing day. I live in Florida, now considered the epicenter of the pandemic. And the president is stoking conspiracy theories and downplaying the seriousness of the virus that's now claimed almost 140,000 lives in the US alone. Today, we welcome Sonia Shah to the show. She's an investigative journalist and author of five books, including "Pandemic: Tracking Contagions from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond"), and has the cover story in the current issue of The Nation, "How to Define a Plague" or "It[s Time to Tell a New Story About Coronavirus--Our Lives Depend on It"