Correspondent Patrick Cockburn talks about his own experience with polio and why public health officials around the world should be on high alert for new outbreaks of the highly debilitating disease.
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Big Pharma refuses to save the world from COVID
Amy Maxmen, a science journalist at Nature Magazine discusses how a large percentage of all available vaccines have been purchased by wealthy countries.
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We Can’t Have Medical Progress Without Risk
Dr. Paul A. Offit joins us to talk about the risks medical researchers must take to develop the lifesaving therapies we rely on.
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You’ve Got The Shot. Are You Still Freaking Out?
Dr. Monica Gandhi is professor of medicine and associate division chief of the Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Medicine at UCSF San Francisco General Hospital. She joins us to discuss our behavior as pandemic restrictions are lifted and how information is disseminated and ingested.
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What’s Standing In The Way Of A COVID Vaccine
Dr. Seema Yasmin joins us to talk about the latest research on COVID-19 antibodies, treatments, and the development of a vaccine.
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How Covid-19 Attacks Our Immune System
New York Times reporter Matt Richtel joins us to talk about our complicated immune system, which is capable of both healing the body and turning on it.
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