Best sarscov2 Podcasts (2024)

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S2E8 / The Scars of Smallpox 16:13

8M ago16:13

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In 1975, smallpox eradication workers in the capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, rushed to a village in the south of the country called Kuralia. They were abuzz and the journey was urgent because they thought they just might be going to document the very last case of variola major, a deadly strain of the virus. When they arrived, they met a toddler, Rahi…

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S2E7 / What Good Is a Vaccine When There Is No Rice? 18:58

9M ago18:58

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The 1970s was the deadliest decade in the “entire history of Bangladesh,” said environmental historian Iftekhar Iqbal. A deadly cyclone, a bloody liberation war, and famine triggered waves of migration. As people moved throughout the country, smallpox spread with them. In Episode 7 of “Eradicating Smallpox,” Shohrab, a man who was displaced by the …

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S2E6 / Bodies Remember What Was Done to Them 20:32

9M ago20:32

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Global fears of overpopulation in the ’60s and ’70s helped fuel India’s campaign to slow population growth. Health workers tasked to encourage family planning were dispatched throughout the country and millions of people were sterilized: some voluntarily, some for a monetary reward, and some through force. This violent and coercive campaign — and t…

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S2E5 / The Tata Way 24:27

10M ago24:27

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In spring 1974, over a dozen smallpox outbreaks sprang up throughout the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. Determined to find the source of the cases, American smallpox eradication worker Larry Brilliant and a local partner, Zaffar Hussain, launched an investigation. The answer: Each outbreak could be traced back to Tatanagar, a city run by one of In…

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Live Web Event: Thinking Big in Public Health, Inspired by the End of Smallpox 0:48

10M ago0:48

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At noon ET on Thursday Sept. 14, Epidemic host Céline Gounder and her guests will come together for a live web event. Click here to register for the event. In Conversation With Host Céline Gounder: Helene D. Gayle, a physician and an epidemiologist, is president of Spelman College. She is a board member of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and pa…

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S2E4 / Speedboat Epidemiology 21:32

11M ago21:32

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Shahidul Haq Khan, a Bangladeshi health worker, and Tim Miner, an American with the World Health Organization, worked together on a smallpox eradication team in Bangladesh in the early 1970s. The team was based on a hospital ship and traveled by speedboat to track down cases of smallpox from Barishal to Faridpur to Patuakhali. Every person who agre…

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S2E3 / Zero Pox! 18:43

11M ago18:43

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In 1973, Bhakti Dastane arrived in Bihar, India, to join the smallpox eradication campaign. She was a year out of medical school and had never cared for anyone with the virus. She believed she was offering something miraculous, saving people from a deadly disease. But some locals did not see it that way. Episode 3 of “Eradicating Smallpox” explores…

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S2E2 / Do You Know Dutta? 24:03

11M ago24:03

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By the mid-1970s, India’s smallpox eradication campaign had been grinding for over a decade. But the virus was still spreading beyond control. It was time to take a new, more targeted approach. This strategy was called “search and containment.” Teams of eradication workers visited communities across India to track down active cases of smallpox. Whe…

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S2E1 / The Goddess of Smallpox 22:34

12M ago22:34

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In the mid-’60s, the national campaign to eradicate smallpox in India was underway, but the virus was still widespread throughout the country. At the time, Dinesh Bhadani was a small boy living in Gaya, a city in the state of Bihar. In his community many people believed smallpox was divine, sent by the Hindu goddess Shitala Mata. In Bihar people ha…

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Trailer: Epidemic Season 2 — Eradicating Smallpox 1:57

1y ago1:57

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"Eradicating Smallpox” is a journey to South Asia, the site of the last days of variola major smallpox. Many epidemiologists and global health leaders thought that ending smallpox was impossible. They were wrong. Dedicated public health workers made it happen. “Eradicating Smallpox” is an eight-episode, limited series amplifying their voices. Host …

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8: Fitness at the Fore – an interview with Hannah Lanel 32:23

2y ago32:23

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The Fore has been described as “one of the slickest fitness studios in London” by Forbes magazine; the “best fitness classes in London” by GQ magazine; and a “lovely studio with great staff” according to Google review. Meeting Hannah, it is unsurprising the reviews are so resoundingly positive. Her upbeat, open approach to creating a well-being env…

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7: Golf is tricky with David Edwards 39:43

2+ y ago39:43

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To be a pro golfer was David Edwards’s dream. We hear his story from Catterick to Mauritius via Hong Kong. We hear of the ambitious young upstart who through determination and talent, forged his own career within the sport to become David ‘Trick Shot’ Edwards. He’s played golf on the QE2 he’ s been pulled over by the old bill on the A1 and he’s pro…

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6: ‘All Things Toilet’ 24:19

2+ y ago24:19

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This episode looks into the unspoken world of men’s and sometimes women’s toilets. We meet Mark and Dave a couple of likely lads, fully adept in the art of urinal etiquette. Their company P-wave, have gone where no man has gone before, into the deep dark corners, smells, and splashes of our sometimes slapdash toiletry habits. Mark and Dave are the …

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Trailer: American Diagnosis Season 4 — Rezilience 3:30

2+ y ago3:30

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In the years leading up to the pandemic, Dr. Celine Gounder, the host of the EPIDEMIC and American Diagnosis podcasts, had the opportunity to care for patients part-time at several Indian Health Service facilities around the United States. Working on the “rez,” one theme came up over and over: resilience. In this latest season of American Diagnosis…

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5: The Return to Travel 28:22

3y ago28:22

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This episode Neil and Eleanor meet Penny Worthy, business development director at Silver Travel Advisor, an award-winning travel reviews website. Penny has spent her career in the travel and leisure industry and is deeply versed in what is happening across this important sector. As travel opens up gradually, Penny shares her views about how the pan…

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S1E80 / Vaccine Joy / Andy Slavitt & Celine Gounder 31:59

3y ago31:59

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"It's a really interesting question: how do we get closure in this pandemic? I think a lot of people have hurt and loss that's not been acknowledged. I think acknowledging that loss is very important." - Andy Slavitt In this final episode of season 1 of EPIDEMIC, we look back on the coronavirus pandemic and how we can move forward with one of our f…

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S1E79 / Women’s Health: Fertile Ground for COVID Myths / Andrea Edlow, Stephanie Gaw, Alice Lu-Culligan, Leena Mithal, Steve Stecklow 23:13

3y ago23:13

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"Pregnant women who have SARS-CoV-2 are more likely to be admitted to the ICU, to need a ventilator and are more likely to die than women of the same age who are not pregnant. Pregnancy definitely makes getting COVID-19 much more dangerous." -Andrea Edlow Some of the most persistent myths about coronavirus and the vaccines developed to fight it hav…

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S1E78 / Caregiving as Infrastructure / Stephanie Coontz, Julie Morita, Erika Moritsugu, Sarah Murphy 24:00

3y ago24:00

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"The pandemic has given us an opportunity to finally change this and if we don't, the economic impact from the fallout of women in the workforce is going to be devastating." -Erika Moritsugu The pandemic has upended caregiving and what it means to be a working mom. More than 2 million women have left the workforce because of the cost and effort of …

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S1E77 / Vaccination Verification: Ticket to Ride or Social Divide? / Albert Fox Cahn, Lawrence Gostin, Fatima Hassan, JP Pollak 24:09

3y ago24:09

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"When you're building a system like a vaccine passport you're potentially excluding millions of people because they don't have this thing that once was optional, but has now become indispensable." -Albert Fox Cahn How do you let people who are fully vaccinated get back to normal life without creating super-spreader events for those who haven’t yet …

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S1E76 / Vaccinating the World Part II: You Can’t Fight Scarcity with Scarcity / John Nkengasong, James Krellenstein, Chelsea Clinton, Peter Hotez 24:11

3y ago24:11

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"You can't fight scarcity with scarcity. The only way out of the vaccine problem is by making a lot more of it." -James Krellenstein India is the world's largest supplier of vaccines but the government there suspended the export of all COVID-19 vaccines after a devastating outbreak this spring. This is just the latest reason why global health leade…

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S1E75 / Vaccinating the World Part I: The Problem with Patents / Chris Morten, Prithi Krishtel, Rohit Malpani 26:22

3y ago26:22

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"It's a triumph of science and engineering that we now have multiple effective COVID vaccines. We just need to find the political will to invest a bit more money and deploy them around the world." -Chris Morten President Joe Biden said the United States would be the world's "arsenal of vaccines" but critics say current plans to donate 80 million do…

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S1E74 / Techno-Racism & COVID at Home & Abroad / Mutale Nkonde, Corin Faife, Heidi Larson, Imran Ahmed 23:38

3y ago23:38

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"They benefit from traffic no matter if it's good information or malignant misinformation. " -Imran Ahmed During the pandemic, disinformation campaigns have been targeting people of color with lies like African Americans can't get COVID or denying the pandemic is even real. In this episode, we’re going to hear more about how these disinformation ne…

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4: Is FAR-UV a Light at the End of the Tunnel? 36:01

3y ago36:01

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In this episode, Neil and Eleanor meet Mike Humphreys from Aerocare Aviation Services and find out how they have got involved in offering UVC solutions to disinfect air, surfaces and people, starting out with aeroplane interiors and expanding into football stadiums and beyond. Mike offers a simple explanation of how the technology works, the histor…

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S1E73 / Getting on the Right Side of Conservatives and Vaccines / Former Governor Chris Christie & Brian Castrucci 22:32

3y ago22:32

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"What we really need to be doing is not belittle people. Don't wag your finger at them. Don't make them feel stupid or small for not having gotten the vaccine yet. Talk to them about why it's safe." - Gov. Chris Christie Conservatives have emerged as the group least likely to say they’ll get vaccinated. Getting more conservative Americans comfortab…

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S1E72 / A World Wide Web of COVID Conspiracies / Graham Brookie, Devin Burghart, Bret Schafer, Judy Twigg 21:08

3y ago21:08

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"Disinformation is a deliberate falsehood put out to mislead an audience. But what we see more of are true bits of information where necessary context has been removed or manipulated in a way that makes it technically true but wildly misleading." -Bret Schafer In this episode of EPIDEMIC, we’re going to look at disinformation during the pandemic. S…

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S1E71 / Is SARS-CoV-2 Here to Stay? / Jennie Lavine, Angela Rasmussen, Jeffrey Shaman 20:48

3y ago20:48

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"I don't think that herd immunity is a possibility for SARS CoV-2. I think there's going to be a different kind of equilibrium that we reach in the future where humans and SARS-CoV-2 co-exist in a much milder, more benign way." -Jennie Lavine The end of the pandemic might not mean the end of SARS-CoV-2. In fact, many scientists think COVID is here …

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3: Reflections on Infections and Scientific Cleaning 34:01

3y ago34:01

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In this episode Neil and Eleanor reflect on what is happening beyond COVID with other types of infection and health trends before getting into conversation with Nigel Cotterill from SGI industries and James White from Rawlins to discuss scientific cleaning, innovative ways to dispense sanitiser and the Worshipful Company of Environmental Cleaners.…

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S1E70 / Country In-Roads: Building Vaccine Confidence in Rural America / Elizabeth Ellis, Dana Friend, Anna Loge, Chris Martin 22:31

3y ago22:31

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"The messaging that we've done in West Virginia is, look, we are leading the country, and that has really given people a sense that we can dispel a lot of negative stereotypes. We can be a world leader in a positive way." -Chris Martin Rural America's vaccine rollout has bucked expectations. A recent survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation found t…

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S1E69 / With Us, For Us — Black Healthcare Workers Speak Out About Vaccine Safety / Jessica Anne Mitchell Aiwuyor, Rhea Boyd, Sandra Lindsay, Tierra Rich 23:34

3+ y ago23:34

23:34

"This virus does not discriminate. The vaccine is what is going to help to get us out of this crisis and stop the depth and the harm and the pain, which is what we're suffering two to three times more than our white counterparts." -Sandra Lindsay Reports show that Black Americans are less likely to get vaccinated than the general population but Bla…

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S1E68 / Medical Racism Past and Present / Vanessa Northington Gamble, Harriet Washington, Rueben Warren 24:36

3+ y ago24:36

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"We have to have a conversation where we take people's fears seriously and try to figure out what is going on there." -Vanessa Gamble Black Americans are twice as likely to die from COVID as white Americans. Despite this, polls show that African-Americans are less interested in receiving the vaccine than other groups. But for people of color who do…

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2: Emerging From the Pandemic: Making Sure Everyone Feels Safe at Festivals 31:20

3+ y ago31:20

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This week Eleanor and Neil chat with Ben Taylor from House of Honey. Ben and his team have created an incredible community of like-minded souls who gather every year to enjoy a festival celebrating Love, Kindness and Tolerance, as well as getting together for other parties through the year. The fact that the festival is called GIVE! Kind of says it…

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S1E67 / Past Is Prologue: Epidemics & Anti-Asian Xenophobia / Toby Chow, Merlin Chowkwanyun, David Randall 20:51

3+ y ago20:51

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"I think a lot of people don't understand how fearful Chinese Americans and other Asian Americans are in this moment" -Toby Chow On March 16, a gunman in Atlanta killed eight people. Six of them were women of Asian descent. During the last 12 months, anti-Asian hate crimes were up 150% in the United States but the coronavirus pandemic is not the fi…

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1: Meet the Hosts of the Clean Matters Podcast 19:36

3+ y ago19:36

19:36

In the inaugural episode of the Clean Matters Podcast. The hosts Dr Neil Bacon and Eleanor Matthews introduce themselves and reveal what and who will be covered in the first few episodes.By JVS Products Ltd

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S1E66 / Brazil’s P.1 Variant — the Limits of Natural Herd Immunity / Felipe Naveca & Ester Sabino 18:58

3+ y ago18:58

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"This is an invisible war and if we don't use our weapons we are not going to win it." -Ester Sabino In the fall of 2020, the Brazilian city of Manaus had the highest SARS CoV-2 infection rate in the world — possibly as high as 75 percent. Some speculated that with rates of infection this high, there would not be enough people left for the virus to…

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S1E65 / Vaccines and Motherly Love / Heather Simpson, Elena Conis, Rebecca Onion, Jonathan Berman 25:16

3+ y ago25:16

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"We easily have never had as high a level of vaccination acceptance as we have now but we've asked a lot more of the public. The resistance that we see today is a response, in part, to that compounded request over time." - Elena Conis The vast majority of Americans accept vaccines but concerns about the effect vaccines could theoretically have on k…

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S1E64 / The Origins of Vaccine Hesitancy / Jonathan Berman, Nadja Durbach and Michael Willrich 23:56

3+ y ago23:56

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"Every generation has generated its own anti-vaccinationism based on very similar concerns." -Jonathan Berman Vaccines are a safe and critical public health tool. They prevent crippling childhood diseases like polio. They’re responsible for the eradication of one of the deadliest diseases ever — smallpox — and, today, they’re one of the most import…

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S1E63 / Chasing the Cure / David Fajgenbaum 22:37

3+ y ago22:37

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"When we think about a virus we don't think as much about the immune response to the virus but it is just so, so critical." -David Fajgenbaum Where do treatments come from when there's a new disease like COVID-19? The vast majority of drugs prescribed to treat COVID during the pandemic are actually old drugs. Some of the most effective have been ar…

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S1E62 / South Africa’s B.1.351 Variant — Immunity-Evading / Salim Abdool Karim, Richard Lessells, Jinal Bhiman, Allison Greaney 23:21

3+ y ago23:21

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"It just shows how difficult it is to be reactive with this virus. By the time you've detected something and understood the significance of it you're already several steps behind the virus." -Richard Lessells This is the second in our series on variants of concern. Our previous episode looked at the UK variant, and today we’re looking at the varian…

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S1E61 / The UK’s B.1.1.7 Variant — More Contagious and Virulent / Andrew Hayward, Trevor Bedford, Gard Nelson, Graham Medley 20:28

3+ y ago20:28

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"I had been assuming that my life and everyone else's life would get closer to normal in March. This [variant] has me worried that it won't be March, that we'll have a spring wave and I don't know how big that will be." -Trevor Bedford This winter a new, more contagious variant of SARS-CoV-2 arose in the United Kingdom: B.1.1.7. The CDC estimates t…

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S1E60 / On the Hunt for the Next Pandemic Virus / Tony Goldberg, Adam Bailey, Jennifer Gardy, Sagan Friant 25:45

3+ y ago25:45

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"When we interact with nature there are unpredictable and weird mechanisms by which pathogens might be able to move between the species." -Tony Goldberg There’s a lot we don’t know about the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus but there is a consensus that it came from animals. This is called zoonosis. HIV, Zika, and Ebola were all viruses in animals be…

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S1E59 / A Perfect Storm for Depression – Deaths of Despair Pt II / Anne Case & Roy Perlis 23:41

3+ y ago23:41

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"This is not like a lot of the other disasters that people have studied. It looks a lot more like what you'd expect to see in people who have lived through a war. " -Roy Perlis This is the second in our two-part series about deaths of despair during the pandemic. We speak with experts and review the latest data on how the pandemic is affecting rate…

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S1E58 / An Overdose Epidemic – Deaths of Despair Pt I / Sandra Lindie, Will Cooke, Jennifer Fecu 21:49

3+ y ago21:49

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"When the pandemic hit, many of our recovery groups went online but that's really not the same. All that great work we had been building momentum towards came to a screeching halt." -Will Cooke Overdoses have spiked during the pandemic. One of the reasons is a breakdown in the community support so critical to keeping people off drugs. Social distan…

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S1E57 / Disrupting Restaurants Part II / Amanda Cohen, Saru Jayarmanan, Pete Ternes 24:11

3+ y ago24:11

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"It's my responsibility as an owner to figure out how to afford to pay everyone an ethical, fair, livable wage but we have to start from the premise of paying them an ethical, livable wage" -Pete Ternes We’re revisiting restaurants as part of our series on industries disrupted by the pandemic. In this episode we speak with restaurateurs and a labor…

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S1E56 / Flattening the Infodemic Curve / Claire Wardle, John Cook, Renee DiResta 22:16

3+ y ago22:16

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Transcript "That's the challenge with infodemics: too much information and not knowing who to trust." - Claire Wardle Combating misinformation has become more important than ever during the pandemic. The novel coronavirus, social media, and a polarized political environment created something public health experts have dubbed an "infodemic" — a floo…

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S1E55 / Mask Up / Linsey Marr, Kim Prather, Delphine Wallis 18:42

3+ y ago18:42

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Transcript "Masks are absolutely essential because you can't always control when someone gets too close to you. You can't control the ventilation in every room that you go into. The thing you control the most, that you have one hundred percent control over, is that mask." - Kimberly Prather As the death toll from COVID-19 surpassed 300,000 in the U…

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S1E54 / A Smarter Way to Quarantine / Roxanne Khamsi & Jeffrey Townsend 18:04

3+ y ago18:04

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Transcript "If you're going to be traveling, if you're going to be in a situation where you might be exposed to others or where you can protect others by quarantining yourself, right now is the time to do it and to do it carefully because this is when it can be especially effective" -Jeffrey Townsend Quarantines are an effective way to stop the spr…

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S1E53 / The Vaccines are Coming / Kizzmekia Corbett, Sree Chaguturu, Julie Rosenberg 23:32

3+ y ago23:32

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Transcript "This, quite frankly, is our generation's Manhattan project" -Sree Chaguturu This has been a big week for vaccines. There are two vaccines under review by the FDA and the United Kingdom has become the first country to authorize Pfizer's mRNA vaccine. In this episode, we'll talk about the science behind mRNA vaccines, and discuss the phys…

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S1E52 / Love and Care in a Pandemic / Jon Gunnell & Robert Cialdini 23:33

3+ y ago23:33

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Transcript "I was watching the nurses and the doctors and everyone in the healthcare industry just going through this trauma... It was just like people needed help and I had a chance to help." -Jon Gunnell Thanksgiving is right around the corner but new daily cases of coronavirus are worse than ever. In this episode, we'll hear some tips for how to…

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S1E51 / Disrupting Restaurants / David Henkes, Kirk Vartan, Tunde Wey 25:12

3+ y ago25:12

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Transcript "Food is not going to solve the world's problems because food is itself a part of the problem, but food is an opportunity to begin thinking about it." - Tunde Wey When airlines and other big industries were getting federal aid at the start of the pandemic, chef and artist Tunde Wey argued that the restaurant industry — his own industry —…

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S1E50 / The Post-Pandemic College Experience / Scott Galloway & Michael D. Smith 21:40

3+ y ago21:40

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Transcript "There's this toxic cocktail of low endowment per student, high tuition, low experience, low certification... Those universities could be out of business in a year." - Scott Galloway Coronavirus concerns forced many universities to close their campuses this fall. The mix of fewer students on campus, canceled athletics, and online courses…

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