• The Distance: Coronavirus Dispatches

  • By: VICE
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The Distance: Coronavirus Dispatches

By: VICE
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  • Summary

  • The Distance features short, first-person stories from all over the world about how the pandemic is changing the way we live. Each episode is a dispatch about one or two people and a brief window into their life, right now. A podcast about uncertainty, distance--and human connection. From VICE Audio.

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Episodes
  • Sheltering Native Foster Youth During Shelter in Place

    Sheltering Native Foster Youth During Shelter in Place
    Dec 16 2020

    In the midst of the pandemic, a new foster care model based on community living and known as a "children's village" has opened up to foster youth on the Cheyenne River Reservation. It's a collaboration between the tribe and an organization called Simply Smiles -- with members of the tribe leading the way by sharing traditional knowledge at a critical time. 

    This story was reported with support from USC’s Center for Health Journalism.


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    11 mins
  • Helping Others Sit With Death

    Helping Others Sit With Death
    Dec 9 2020
    Alua Arthur is a death doula in Los Angeles, California, where she helps people prepare for death emotionally, spiritually, physically, and even logistically. She says the pandemic itself has a lot in common with the end-of-life experience.

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    12 mins
  • Trans in El Salvador

    Trans in El Salvador
    Dec 3 2020
    Bianka Rodriguez is a transgender woman and activist in El Salvador who says the pandemic has hit the trans community especially hard -- and that even government aid programs discriminate against trans people.

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    7 mins

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