Lawrence Wright joins us to talk about his fiction focused on a pandemic upending the world, written months and months before our current crisis.
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The Rise Of Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs
Muhammad H. Zaman, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor of Biomedical Engineering and International Health at Boston University, joins us to talk about antibiotic-resistant superbugs and why he’s worried we could face yet another public health threat.
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Finding Our Way To The New Normal
Atlantic staff writer Ed Yong joins us to explain why instead of asking “when will life get back to normal?”, we should focus our energies on incremental steps to a more livable future.
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What We Can Learn From The First U.S. Coronavirus Hotspot
Miles O’Brien joins us to talk about his coast-to-coast reporting on the people affected by the coronavirus – and about how inaction by elected officials contributed to the outbreak.
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Our 100-Year Battle With Pandemics
Medical historian Mark Honigsbaum joins us to talk about why bacterial and viral disasters continue to take us by surprise.
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Vaccine Science, Race And Mathematical Modeling
On today’s show, experts explain some of the more mysterious elements of the coronavirus, including what it will take to develop a vaccine, how epidemiological models work and why black and Latino patients are disproportionately affected.
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In the ‘America First’ Era, Can The U.S. Lead The World?
Former US Ambassador Nicholas Burns joins us to talk about strategies to align the world in the battle for collective public health.
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Will COVID-19 Spell the End of International Cooperation
Abraham Newman joins us to talk about how smoothing out all the bumps in our international supply chains created an unexpected shock in the system.
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During Social Distancing, We’re All In This Together
NYU sociology professor Eric M. Klinenberg joins us to talk about how making it through Covid-19 will require buy-in from everyone.
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Life On The Front Lines Of Covid-19
Dr. Robert J. Hancock, president-elect of the Texas College of Emergency Physicians, joins us to talk about how hospitals are planning ahead.
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How to Deal with Your COVID-19 Anxiety
Dr. Ahmad Raza, professor of psychiatry at UT Southwestern’s joins us to talk about COVID-19 anxiety and how we can both calm ourselves and care for others.
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Pandemics: Then And Now
Frank M. Snowden, the Andrew Downey Orrick Professor Emeritus of History and History of Medicine at Yale University, joins us to talk about how infectious outbreaks — both terrifying and romanticized — have shaped our world.
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