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Since March of 2020, we've been bringing you different perspectives on living through and understanding the coronavirus pandemic. Today, host Sam Whitehead sits in the interview chair to share some of the things he's learned.See Privacy Policy
Dave O'Connor, a virologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, says there's lots of disagreement among scientists about the value of COVID-19 booster shots even as federal regulators make recommendations for them.See Privacy Policy at htt
Dr. Kimberly Manning, an internist at Grady Memorial Hospital, says giving people a space to share their concerns about COVID-19 vaccines can make them more confident in getting them.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Californi
Dr. Joe Bresee, with the Task Force for Global Health, shares how the nonprofit's work on standing up influenza vaccination programs equip it to help countries establish COVID-19 vaccination programs.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/priv
This week, we held a special live taping of the podcast with Dr. Lilly Cheng Immergluck, Immergluck, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at the Morehouse School of Medicine, and Dr. Audrey Arona, who leads the Gwinnett, Newton, and Rockda
Cecile Viboud, an epidemiologist with the National Institutes of Health who helps run the COVID-19 Scenario Modeling Hub, joins me to talk about the latest projections from the group, which show the pandemic slowing down in the next few months.
Sarah Jane Tribble, with Kaiser Health News, says top U.S. scientists started talking seriously about COVID-19 booster shots in January, at a time when many Americans hadn't received their first vaccine doses.See Privacy Policy at https://art19
Lawrence Gostin, who directs the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown Law. says there's a long history of vaccine mandates in the U.S. that have paved the way for those President Biden recently announced.See Privac
Becky Sayler has three kids in elementary school in the Cobb County School District. Within the first week of school one of them contracted COVID-19. She shares how her family has been navigating the situation.See Privacy Policy at https://art1
Dr. Carlos del Rio, infectious diseases specialist at Emory University, says low vaccination rates and the highly transmissible delta variant of the coronavirus are to blame for the current wave of COVID-19 pandemic.See Privacy Policy at https:
N.R. is an emergency room physician at a large hospital in metro Atlanta. He shares his experiences dealing with the current wave of the pandemic.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com
Dr. Robert Jansen, chief medical officer of the Grady Health System, which runs Georgia's largest hospital, says the current wave of the pandemic could soon be as large at the one that swamped health care facilities this winter.See Privacy Poli
Over the course of the pandemic, many communities have turned to the non-profit group CORE for help with COVID-19 testing and vaccination. Ann Lee, CEO of CORE discusses that work.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California P
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now says even fully vaccinated people can spread the coronavirus. That's based on new research on the high-transmissible delta variant. Dr. Colleen Kraft, and infectious diseases physician and rese
U.S. Senators Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are pushing a plan to create a federal Medicaid look-alike program to extend health coverage to low income Georgians. Both say the plan was inspired, in part, by the pandemic.See Privacy Policy at ht
Christopher Wimer, co-director of the Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia University, says the expanded child tax credit payments going out to families in July could dramatically reduce child poverty in the country.See Privacy Polic
Dr. David Brett-Major, an infectious diseases physician at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, says we're still learning a lot about how and why the delta variant of the coronavirus is so troublesome.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.c
Johnny C. Taylor, Jr., CEO of the Society for Human Resource Management, says the pandemic has brought some big changes to the workplace, though it's unclear which will persist.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Priv
Since March of 2020, we've brought you scores of conversations about different aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, we're doing something a little different. Health reporter Sam Whitehead plays the guest and answer questions about the origi
Joshua Weitz, a quantitative biologist at Georgia Tech, says some two-thirds of Georgians could have some immune protection against the coronavirus, either through vaccination or natural infection.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy
Paul Bieniasz, a virologist at the Rockefeller University, says it's not uncommon for people to get infected by a virus even once they've been vaccinated against it, but that doesn't mean a vaccine isn't working.See Privacy Policy at https://ar
Liz Hamel, director of public opinion at the Kaiser Family Foundation, says attitudes on COVID-19 vaccines have changed a good bit over the course of the vaccine rollout.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Not
Dr. Wendy Armstrong, medical director of Grady Health System's HIV clinic, says a plan to end the HIV epidemic by 2030 was already ambitious, but COVID-19 has made the effort even harder.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Calif
Dr. Melanie Thompson, an HIV researcher and physician in Atlanta, says COVID-19 and HIV has exposed similar inequities in the U.S.. She says the fight against one pandemic can teach us things about addressing the other.See Privacy Policy at htt
Carl Zimmer, a columnist for the New York Times, says some scientists think the theory that the coronavirus accidentally leaked from a Chinese lab is unlikely but still deserving of investigation.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy
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