Alexis Madrigal is the co-host of KQED's “Forum,” the leading talk show in the San Francisco Bay Area. Madrigal is also a contributing writer at The Atlantic and the author of a forthcoming book from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He was a co-founder of The COVID Tracking Project.
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