Dr. Celine Gounder joins us to talk about how we should think about reopening schools, offices and maybe even our vacation plans as more and more people become vaccinated.
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Dallas Fed Chair Talks Post-Pandemic Economy
Robert Kaplan, President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, joins us to talk about how increased rates of vaccination and the rollback of COVID restrictions will affect the state’s economy the rest of the year.
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What Would We Do If There Were No More Nurses?
Theresa Brown is a nurse and author, and she joins us to talk about the nurses charged with healing despite a lack of support and how, even as the demand for care skyrockets, the nation faces a severe nursing shortage.
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Can Hospitals Survive Covid?
Vivian Ho is James A. Baker III Institute Chair in Health Economics and director of the Center for Health and Biosciences at Rice University, and she joins us to talk about the knock-on effects of the pandemic, from possible health-care bankruptcies to staffing issues, that hospitals are bracing for after the storm.
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Why Is It Taking So Long To Get Your Covid Shot?
Kaiser Health News correspondent Rachana Pradhan joins us to explain the very complicated process of producing these vaccines – a process money or even executive orders can only do so much to speed up.
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What Does It Mean To Be Asian-American?
Cathy Park Hong, poetry editor of the New Republic and a professor at Rutgers-Newark University, joins us to talk about the stereotypes, suspicions, successes and fears wrapped up in her identity.
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What Must Be Done Before The Next Pandemic
Jennifer Nuzzo, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, joins us to talk about when politics and science collide during a global pandemic and what an effective response should look like next time.
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How Work Has Changed During the Pandemic
Even if who’ve been fortunate enough to not contract COVID-19, the pandemic has affected in some way each of our home lives and careers. This hour, we’ll talk about how work has changed during the pandemic.
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A Covid Vaccine Is Imminent. So Who Should Get It First?
Christopher Cox joins us to think through effective vaccine distribution and if the focus should be on vulnerable populations or super-spreaders.
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What It Will Take For Texas To Survive COVID
Dallas Federal Reserve Bank president and CEO Robert Kaplan and Joe Straus, former Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, join host Krys Boyd to discuss the pandemic’s impact on the state in terms of dollars, jobs, and the health of Texans.
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A Look At The Past And Present Of Illness In The White House
Jeffrey Engel is the founding director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University. He joins us to talk about how previous administrations have communicated with the public about the health of the president.
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How COVID-19 Preys On The Marginalized
Ruqaiijah Yearby joins us to discuss how unemployment, lack of affordable housing and other factors lead to health inequities.
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