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A weekly update on new research and developments concerning COVID-19 (and occasionally other infectious diseases that hit the news). We take questions via call-in during the live broadcast, Mondays at 7:33am Pacific, streaming via kpfa.org. Podcasts with show notes go up later the same day. Between live shows, we take questions via email at upfront@kpfa.org . Our guest most weeks is Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Heal ...
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Stardust MQ

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Stardust MQ is a science podcast from Cameron Furlong with the Macquarie University Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Macquarie University Physics and Astronomy Society. Join Cameron as he chats with researchers and academics about their research and interests in their chosen field of study. Thanks to Kelly Sharpless for our logo. Intro Music: 'Golden Hour' Podington Bear (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Podington_Bear/Springtime/Golden_Hour_1973) Outro Music: 'Mission Ready' Ke ...
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Subversive Studies

Subversive Studies Podcast

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Conversations with scholars, writers, and artists whose work subverts the dominant paradigm. Discover people who are interested in disrupting conventional norms and ideologies and creating new ways of thinking about, being in, and understanding the world. Hosted by Dan Glenn. Opening and closing theme music by Podington Bear http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Podington_Bear/ Cover art graphic design by Jeff Wolfe http://www.ciis.edu CIIS Center for Writing and Scholarship: http://academicwrit ...
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Winnipeg Covenant Bible Convo Podcast

Gavin Jensen, Erik Anderson, and Cody Anderson

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A conversation among friends about Scripture! Gavin, Erik, and Cody - pastors serving churches in Winnipeg, MB - banter about the Bible. It's a little light, a little salty, and occasionally crunchy. We take God's Word seriously, and ourselves...? NOT AT ALL. Theme song by Podington Bear
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Rocks are great, come and enjoy some! Listen to me describe some rocks and everything that the rock is. Music by Podington Bear 🎵 Rocks by The Earth 🌎 Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/miloaxelrod/support
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For the Love of Game

Anthony Apruzzese

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A podcast about long form improvisational comedy hosted by Anthony Apruzzese, a performer and teacher at the Upright Citizen's Brigade theatre. In each episode, Anthony interviews a different improviser about a different aspect of improv. My god, it's nerdy. Music by Podington Bear "Roscoe." Artwork by Matt Czap.
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Point of Discovery

University of Texas at Austin, College of Natural Sciences, Marc Airhart

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Behind every scientific discovery is a scientist (or 12) and a story. “Point of Discovery” takes you on a journey beyond WHAT we know to HOW we know it. Along the way, listeners will meet the sometimes quirky, always passionate people whose curiosity unlocks hidden worlds. Music by: Podington Bear. Learn more at: http://pointofdiscovery.org DISCLAIMER Point of Discovery is part of the Texas Podcast Network, which is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced b ...
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Under Development

Pasadena City College

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What does it mean to grow? We know that students are on a journey of both professional and personal development during their time at college but the truth is, the growing never ends. Under Development is a storytelling podcast brought to you by the Office of Professional and Organizational Development (OPOD), dedicated to strengthening the connection between staff and faculty at PCC with the student population. We hope to accomplish this by creating a space with our student host Veronica Dan ...
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Discussed in the episode: Missouri has confirmed a case of H5N1 Avian Influenza in a person who had no identifiable contact with animals known to carry the disease, raising fears the virus may have become capable of human-to-human transmission. Several close contacts of the patient had symptoms as well, but none so far have tested positive for avia…
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An all-emails edition, as KPFA’s fund drive keeps our time tight and out phone lines busy. To chip in: Mention Corona Calls when you contribute at kpfa.org/support To send us a question in advance of next week’s show, write to: coronacalls@kpfa.org. Tune in live Monday mornings (or Tuesdays when Monday’s a holiday) at 7:30am Pacific at kpfa.org Pod…
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Discussed in this episode: Wastewater monitoring seems to show COVID levels have peaked, after a summer wave much larger than in recent years. For the first time, H5N1 avian influenza has been confirmed in California. The California Department of Food and Agriculture confirmed it in three dairy herds, all of them in the Central Valley. There are no…
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Discussed in this episode: The FDA has approved the latest iteration of the Novavax vaccine. Here are the main differences with the MRNA vaccines (Moderna and Pfizer) that had new versions approved slightly earlier: Novavax works by injecting COVID spike proteins into the body, rather than injecting MRNA molecules that tell the body’s cells to manu…
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Discussed in this episode: The FDA’s just approved a new round of COVID shots, tuned to target the KP.2 subvariant of the the virus, which is not the dominant strain in circulation right now, but a close relative. MRNA vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna should be available as soon as this week. The updated Novavax vaccine, which will target the older…
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Discussed in this episode: Key COVID-19 prevalence indicators suggest the current surge of COVID-19 infections is the largest summer wave ever, with infections extra-concentrated in the western United States. Test positivity is at its highest since the Omicron wave, but hospitalizations and deaths are comparatively low. COVID levels in sewage sampl…
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Discussed in this episode: The US — in particular, the Western US — is in the midst of a summer wave of COVID cases. Research published in May suggests the risk of contracting COVID on a flight increases by 53% for every additional hour of flight length. To send us a question in advance of next week’s show, write to: coronacalls@kpfa.org . Tune in …
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Discussed in this episode: There appears to be a summer surge in COVID activity: test positivity, emergency department visits, and hospitalizations are all trending up. New research seems to confirm one mechanism behind Long Covid symptoms is auto-immunity: in response to infection, the body starts producing antibodies that go on to attack parts of…
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Guest-hosted by Ariel Boone, in for Brian Edwards-Tiekert. To send us a question in advance of next week’s show, write to: coronacalls@kpfa.org . Tune in live Monday mornings at 7:30am Pacific at kpfa.org Podcast music credit: Now Son by Podington Bear, licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License. The post Corona Calls for …
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Guest-hosted by Ariel Boone, in for Brian Edwards-Tiekert. To send us a question in advance of next week’s show, write to: coronacalls@kpfa.org . Tune in live Monday mornings at 7:30am Pacific at kpfa.org Podcast music credit: Now Son by Podington Bear, licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License. The post Corona Calls for …
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Guest-hosted by Ariel Boone, in for Brian Edwards-Tiekert. To send us a question in advance of next week’s show, write to: coronacalls@kpfa.org . Tune in live Monday mornings at 7:30am Pacific at kpfa.org Podcast music credit: Now Son by Podington Bear, licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License. The post Corona Calls for …
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Discussed in this episode: The WHO reported a fatal human case of H5N1 avian influenza in Mexico. It’s a different variant from what’s been documented in US dairy herds. It’s unclear how the patient, who was already very sick, got infected. The FDA’s external scientific advisory panel, the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Committee (VRBPAC)…
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Discussed in this episode: There’s a third confirmed case of H5N1 Avian Influenza in a farmworker. For the first time, the patient has respiratory symptoms. This raises concerns that 1) the virus has adapted to attach to a new set of receptors in the human body, and 2) more people will get exposed via droplets and aerosols from coughs and sneezes. …
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We’re celebrating the launch of “AI for the Rest of Us”, a podcast to help get you up to speed on the essentials of artificial intelligence. Every two weeks, we’ll sit down with UT faculty experts and get them talking, in simple terms, about how AI might transform healthcare, work, the ways we learn and how we make big decisions. Co-hosts are Marc …
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Discussed in this episode: H5N1 Avian Influenza has been confirmed in a second dairy worker, this time in Michigan. There are now 56 dairy herds with confirmed outbreaks. A Letter to the Editor in the New England Journal of Medicine details how a laboratory process similar (but not identical) to pasteurization failed to completely eliminate active …
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Discussed in this episode: Singapore is warning its estimated COVID case count doubled in a week, with 2/3 of cases involving newer subvariants in the FLiRT lineage (KP.1 and KP.2) CDC modeling suggests the COVID is “likely growing” in all states on the West Coast. This week’s show is abbreviated because KPFA’s in the midst of fundraising. We trim …
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Discussed in this episode: Although COVID levels remain *very* low by every metric still available, there’s growing concern that one subvariant, called KP.2, makes up a rapidly-increasing share of COVID samples. That’s because a sub-variant that rapidly out-competes other sub-variants in circulation often has the properties required to drive a new …
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Discussed in this episode: A detailed report on the investigation into the case of H5N1 avian influenza in a dairy worker has been published as a letter to the editor in the New England Journal of Medicine. It exposes some weak points in the public health response–the worker didn’t disclose what dairy they work at, and didn’t identify close contact…
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Discussed in this episode: Testing has found viral DNA from H5N1 Avian Influenza in samples representing about 20% of the American milk supply, suggesting the virus could be much more widespread in this country’s dairy herds than previously reported. New research reduced the transmission of SARS-COV2 and influenza by swabbing the nostrils of mice a…
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Discussed in this episode: Four and a half years after the start of a pandemic spread by an airborne pathogen, the World Health Organization has released consensus guidance on how to describe and characterize pathogens that travel through the air. California will stop publishing data on COVID hospitalizations, because of dwindling federal support. …
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Discussed in this episode: A new paper finds that SARS-COV2 infects a type of immune cell the in the lungs called interstitial macrophages, helping to explain the cascade of inflammation, lung damage, and scarring seen in severe COVID-19. The virus enters those cells using a receptor (CD209) different from the ACE2 receptor targeted by current COVI…
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Over the past year and a half, data and images from the James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, have been flooding in. And floating around in that sea of data (and from other instruments over the past 20 years) are at least three big problems: There appear to be too many big, bright galaxies, too soon after the Big Bang. No one can agree on how fast t…
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Discussed in this episode: Avian Influenza (H5N1) has popped up in cows in several states, raising concerns that the virus has jumped to a mammalian species and is now capable of transmitting from cow to cow. Then on Monday, Texas reported a case in a human that works with cows. When is it time to get alarmed? To send us a question in advance of ne…
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Hello friends! In this episode, Erik, Gavin, and Cody discuss the exciting conclusion of the story of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew – chapters 26-28! It’s just in time for Holy Week! Read the chapters (or the whole Gospel of Matthew), listen in, and share your thoughts and reflections with us! Rate, review, and subscribe on Spotify and Apple Podca…
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This episode’s all listener questions, including: When does it make sense to wait for the new booster? Can you start Paxlovid too early? Where do you get a PCR test these days? Does your reaction to a booster tell you anything about your immune performance? To send us a question in advance of next week’s show, write to: coronacalls@kpfa.org . Tune …
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Discussed in this episode: Cases of Norovirus, which causes intense vomiting and diarrhea, are rising sharply and likely approaching their seasonal peak. Alcohol-based sanitizers don’t work very well on this virus: it’s better just to scrub your hands for at least 20 seconds with soap and water. Here are tips from the CDC on how to avoid getting no…
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Discussed in this episode: Are there downsides to getting too many doses of COVID vaccine? A new study of one man who got 217 (!) doses couldn’t find any. To send us a question in advance of next week’s show, write to: coronacalls@kpfa.org . Tune in live Monday mornings at 7:30am Pacific at kpfa.org Podcast music credit: Now Son by Podington Bear, …
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Here in the U.S., many of us are eagerly awaiting the April 8th, 2024 total solar eclipse, the last of its kind to cross our paths (at least in the contiguous U.S.) until the year 2045. Austin, Texas, where we produce Point of Discovery, is right in the path of totality. And this eclipse feels even more special because the last total solar eclipse …
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Discussed in this episode: The CDC has updated its COVID vaccine guidance to recommend adults age 65+ get an additional dose of the latest COVID-19 vaccine. The CDC has also weakened its guidance on how long to isolate when sick with COVID-19, to make it the same as for other respiratory virus infections. (We discussed the merits of this two episod…
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Discussed in this episode: The Washington Post (and subsequently, other outlets) is reporting, based on anonymous sources, that the CDC is considering changing its guidelines on COVID isolation to give people with COVID cases an all-clear after they’ve been fever-free for 24 hours without the help of fever -suppressing medication. Because of fundra…
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An episode devoted exclusively to answering questions from the audience, including: When do I know it’s safe to stop wearing a mask at indoor gatherings? How long after a possible exposure should I start getting tested? What are the odds of getting Long COVID? To send in questions: coronacalls@kpfa.org Podcast music credit: Now Son by Podington Bea…
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An episode devoted exclusively to answering questions from the audience, including: How long *before* testing positive might someone be contagious? How much immunity do newborns have? How do you check the certification on a KN95?* Will there be a Spring booster for people at high risk? What lessons should we learn from the COVID response? *Doctor S…
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Discussed in this episode: The California Department of Public Health has changed its COVID isolation guidelines. It no longer recommends people with asymptomatic COVID isolate. For people with symptomatic cases, the updated guidelines allow isolation to end after they’ve been fever-free for 24 hours (as long as other symptoms are improving). A thr…
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Discussed in this episode: A study recently published in Clinical Infectious Diseases finds COVID viral load is peaking later after symptom onset than at the start of the pandemic https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciad582 A laboratory study on syrian hamsters found temperature and humidity had no statistically significant impact on the rate of airborne t…
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Hello friends! We’re back with a mini-series of conversations on the Gospel of Matthew. In this episode, Erik, Gavin, and Cody discuss chapters 1 through 7. Read that sections of Scripture, listen in to the audio of the chat, and then chip in on the comments section below with your own thoughts! Rate, review, and subscribe on Spotify and Apple Podc…
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Discussed in this episode: A CDC weekly surveillance report shows California had “Very High” levels of people seeking treatment for influenza-like illnesses at the end of 2023 It’s safe to get vaccines for COVID, influenza, and RSV at the same time, but may increase the likelihood of side effects. (Side effects are usually minor and transient, like…
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HO HO HO and Hellooooo friends! In this conversation Gavin, Erik, and Cody talk about the Christmas story as it comes to us in the Gospel of Matthew (from the perspective of Joseph). Also, a game of “Noel or No Way,” and chatting about giving and receiving Christmas gifts. We’re beginning a new podcast rhythm, and we’re excited about a four week mi…
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Discussed in this episode: Omicron subvariant JN.1 is now believed to account for a majority of all COVID cases worldwide. COVID hospitalizations are rising in the US, but less than at this time in previous years. To send in questions: coronacalls@kpfa.org Podcast music credit: Now Son by Podington Bear, licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3…
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Discussed in this episode: The CDC Covid Data Tracker is starting to show a significant uptick in COVID emergency room visits and hospitalization nationwide, though absolute rates are still low for most of the country, including California. To send in questions: coronacalls@kpfa.org Podcast music credit: Now Son by Podington Bear, licensed under a …
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Discussed in this episode: Just before Thanksgiving, the WHO asked China for data on a surge in respiratory illness that has reportedly led to long lines at hospitals, especially children’s hospitals, in the country’s north. China’s responses so far indicate it’s found no new pathogens driving the surge. The country’s health officials attribute it …
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Discussed in this episode: The precautions Dr. Swartzberg’s taking when he travels to spend Thanksgiving with family: vaccines, masks, and tests Why we just don’t know yet whether nasal sprays like NoriZite actually help prevent infection The government is sending out more free tests. Here’s where to get yours: https://www.covid.gov/tests To send i…
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Discussed in this episode: The subvariant rising to dominance in North America: HV.1 Getting vaccinated when your immune system is suppressed Combining Paxlovid with Metfomin To send in questions: coronacalls@kpfa.org Podcast music credit: Now Son by Podington Bear, licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License. The post Coro…
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Discussed in this episode: what Dr. Swartzberg reads to stay current The CDC Covid Data Tracker Dr. Katelyn Jetelina’s newsletter, Your Local Epidemiologist Dr. Eric Topol’s newsletter, Ground Truths To send in questions: coronacalls@kpfa.org Podcast music credit: Now Son by Podington Bear, licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Internation…
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Discussed in this episode: A new article in the journal Cell finds Long Covid associated with reduced levels of serotonin circulating in the bloodstream. (The authors’ explanation: the persistent presence of the virus, and/or its fragments, causes the body to crank out more type I interferons. The interferons cause inflammation in the gut that redu…
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