Monday, October 4, 2021 - James Han Mattson grew up in North Dakota and currently lives in Grand Forks. His new novel, Reprieve is out tomorrow, and it’s accumulating a lot of early praise. The novel is set at a full-contact haunted escape room and begins with a horrific murder. ~~~ Dr. Michael Mina is an epidemiologist and member of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at Harvard. He says rapid, at-home COVID tests would be an effective way to curtail the pandemic’s spread. He talks about that and other pandemic issues in an excerpt from the Conversations on Healthcare podcast.