As It Happens: Thursday Edition
Part One
WHO Conservative Critic
A Conservative MP has some questions for the W-H-O about their handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Questions he had planned to ask at a committee meeting that's just been cancelled.
Ontario Testing Expansion
The Ontario government says it's expanding its coronavirus testing, but one doctor at a long-term care centre says while he managed to get a special exemption for the testing his patients and staff need, other homes aren't so lucky.
Weird String Creature
A marine scientist in Australia has stumbled across an organism that is likely the lengthiest creature ever seen and the strangest, too.
Part Two
NY Nurse Update
When a young Maryland nurse told her military dad she was heading to New York to help with the crisis he warned her no matter how prepared she was, the reality might still come as shock. She says he was right.
Part Three
New York Doc Ebola
A New York doctor treating COVID patients has good idea of how they feel, when they're being treated by medical staff. Because he too felt toxic when he contracted Ebola.
Old Apple Varieties
We hear from a man who made it his mission to find and revive varieties of apples thought to have gone extinct. And this year, especially, his work bore fruit.