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Take it from Pluto the Schnauzer: Comedy will help us through the coronavirus crisis

  • Written by Caty Borum Chattoo, Executive Director of the Center for Media & Social Impact, Assistant Professor, American University School of Communication
What's got four legs, a wet nose and can help us laugh through the crisis?Facebook

It took an adorable talking dog to shake me from my gloom.

Ten days into the Great Pandemic Shutdown of 2020, I was still scrolling my phone for increasingly grim statistics, epidemiological forecast models and horror stories from the medical front lines of COVID-19.

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