Epidemic

EPIDEMIC is a weekly series on the science, public health, and social impact of the coronavirus pandemic. We help you understand the latest science and the bigger context, bringing you diverse angles—from history to politics to virology—depth and texture you won’t get elsewhere. Hear from some of the world’s leading infectious disease, public health, and other experts.

Hosted by: Dr. Celine Gounder
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Season 1COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Episode 79

S1E79: Women’s Health: Fertile Ground for COVID Myths / Andrea Edlow, Stephanie Gaw, Alice Lu-Culligan, Leena Mithal, Steve Stecklow

 23min | Jun. 17th, 2021 Listen To This Episode
Episode 78

S1E78: Caregiving as Infrastructure / Stephanie Coontz, Julie Morita, Erika Moritsugu, Sarah Murphy

 24min | Jun. 10th, 2021 Listen To This Episode
Episode 77

S1E77: Vaccination Verification: Ticket to Ride or Social Divide? / Albert Fox Cahn, Lawrence Gostin, Fatima Hassan & JP Pollak

 24min | Jun. 3rd, 2021 Listen To This Episode
Episode 76

S1E76: Vaccinating the World Part II: You Can’t Fight Scarcity with Scarcity / Chelsea Clinton, Peter Hotez, James Krellenstein, John Nkengasong

 24min | May. 27th, 2021 Listen To This Episode
Episode 75

S1E75: Vaccinating the World Part I: The Problem with Patents / Chris Morten, Priti Krishtel, Rohit Malpani

 26min | May. 20th, 2021 Listen To This Episode
Episode 74

S1E74: Techno-Racism & COVID at Home and Abroad / Mútale Nkonde, Corin Faife, Heidi Larson, Imran Ahmed

 23min | May. 13th, 2021 Listen To This Episode
Episode 73

S1E73: Getting on the Right Side of Conservatives and Vaccines / Gov. Chris Christie, Brian Castrucci

 22min | May. 6th, 2021 Listen To This Episode
Episode 72

S1E72: A World Wide Web of COVID Conspiracies / Graham Brookie, Devin Burghart, Bret Schafer, Judy Twigg

 21min | Apr. 29th, 2021 Listen To This Episode
Episode 71

S1E71: Is SARS-CoV-2 Here to Stay? / Jennie Lavine, Angela Rasmussen, Jeffrey Shaman

 20min | Apr. 22nd, 2021 Listen To This Episode
Episode 70

S1E70: Country In-Roads: Building Vaccine Confidence in Rural America / Elizabeth Ellis, Dana Friend, Anna Loge, Chris Martin

 22min | Apr. 15th, 2021 Listen To This Episode
Episode 69

S1E69: With Us, For Us — Black Healthcare Workers Speak Out About Vaccine Safety / Jessica Anne Mitchell Aiwuyor, Rhea Boyd, Sandra Lindsay, Tierra Rich

 24min | Apr. 8th, 2021 Listen To This Episode
Episode 68

S1E68: Medical Racism Past and Present / Vanessa Northington Gamble, Harriet Washington, Rueben Warren

 24min | Apr. 1st, 2021 Listen To This Episode
Episode 67

S1E67: Past Is Prologue: Epidemics & Anti-Asian Xenophobia / Toby Chow, Merlin Chowkwanyun, David Randall

 20min | Mar. 25th, 2021 Listen To This Episode
Episode 66

S1E66: Brazil’s P.1 Variant — the Limits of Natural Herd Immunity / Felipe Naveca, Ester Sabino

 19min | Mar. 18th, 2021 Listen To This Episode
Episode 65

S1E65: Vaccines and Motherly Love / Heather Simpson, Elena Conis, Rebecca Onion, Jonathan Berman

 26min | Mar. 11th, 2021 Listen To This Episode
Episode 64

S1E64: The Origins of Vaccine Hesitancy / Jonathan Berman, Nadja Durbach, Michael Willrich

 25min | Mar. 4th, 2021 Listen To This Episode
Episode 63

S1E63: Chasing the Cure / David Fajgenbaum

 23min | Feb. 25th, 2021 Listen To This Episode
Episode 62

S1E62: South Africa’s B.1.351 Variant — Immunity-Evading / Salim Abdool Karim, Richard Lessells, Jinal Bhiman, Allison Greaney

 23min | Feb. 18th, 2021 Listen To This Episode
Episode 61

S1E61: The UK’s B.1.1.7 Variant — More Contagious and Virulent / Andrew Hayward, Trevor Bedford, Gard Nelson, Graham Medley

 21min | Feb. 11th, 2021 Listen To This Episode
Episode 60

S1E60: On the Hunt for the Next Pandemic Virus / Tony Goldberg, Adam Bailey, Jennifer Gardy, Sagan Friant

 25min | Feb. 4th, 2021 Listen To This Episode
Episode 59

S1E59: A Perfect Storm for Depression – Deaths of Despair Pt II / Anne Case, Roy Perlis

 24min | Jan. 28th, 2021 Listen To This Episode
Episode 58

S1E58: An Overdose Epidemic – Deaths of Despair Pt I / Sandra Lindie, Will Cooke, Jennifer Fecu

 21min | Jan. 21st, 2021 Listen To This Episode
Episode 57

E57: Disrupting Restaurants Part II / Amanda Cohen, Saru Jayarmanan, Pete Ternes

 24min | Jan. 14th, 2021 Listen To This Episode
Episode 56

E56: Flattening the Infodemic Curve / Claire Wardle, John Cook, Renee DiResta

 22min | Jan. 7th, 2021 Listen To This Episode
Episode 55

E55: Mask Up / Linsey Marr, Kim Prather, Delphine Wallis

 19min | Dec. 18th, 2020 Listen To This Episode
Episode 54

E54: A Smarter Way to Quarantine / Roxanne Khamsi, Jeffrey Townsend

 18min | Dec. 11th, 2020 Listen To This Episode
Episode 53

E53: The Vaccines are Coming / Kizzmekia Corbett, Sree Chaguturu, Julie Rosenberg

 24min | Dec. 4th, 2020 Listen To This Episode
Episode 52

E52: Love and Care in a Pandemic / Jon Gunnell, Robert Cialdini

 23min | Nov. 21st, 2020 Listen To This Episode
Episode 51

E51: Disrupting Restaurants / David Henkes, Kirk Vartan, Tunde Wey

 25min | Nov. 14th, 2020 Listen To This Episode
Episode 50

E50: The Post-Pandemic College Experience / Scott Galloway, Michael D. Smith

 21min | Nov. 6th, 2020 Listen To This Episode
Episode 49

E49: Lessons from the Zombie Apocalypse / Coltan Scrivner, David Schnieder, Robert Wonser

 23min | Oct. 30th, 2020 Listen To This Episode
Episode 48

E48: A False Promise: Herd Immunity and Herd Mentality / Mark Pagel, Tom Frieden

 26min | Oct. 23rd, 2020 Listen To This Episode
Episode 47

E47: A Very Important Patient / Art Caplan, George Annas, Joel Goldstein

 25min | Oct. 16th, 2020 Listen To This Episode
Episode 46

E46: Vote Like Your Health Depends on It / Alister Martin, Betsy Hoover, Ralph Noyes

 23min | Oct. 9th, 2020 Listen To This Episode
Episode 45

E45: In for the Long-haul / Diana Berrent, Eli Musser, Marcus Tomoff, Marjorie Roberts

 25min | Oct. 2nd, 2020 Listen To This Episode
Episode 44

E44: Science & Public Health Under Attack / Gary Kasparov, Lori Freeman, Theresa Anselmo

 23min | Sep. 25th, 2020 Listen To This Episode
Episode 43

E43: What Sports Can Teach Us About Mass Testing / Michael Mina, Rohan Nadkarni, Stephanie Apstein

 21min | Sep. 18th, 2020 Listen To This Episode
Episode 42

E42: One on One with Tony Fauci

 21min | Sep. 11th, 2020 Listen To This Episode
Episode 41

E41: Back to Campus / Allison Slater-Tate, Amy Gorin, Eleanor Daugherty, Rochelle Walensky

 23min | Aug. 4th, 2020 Listen To This Episode
Episode 40

E40: Back to School / Arne Duncan, Allison Slater Tate, Stephanie Gounder

 23min | Jul. 31st, 2020 Listen To This Episode
Episode 39

E39: Invisible Women / Ai-jen Poo, Susie Rivera, Glewna Joseph

 23min | Jul. 28th, 2020 Listen To This Episode
Episode 38

E38: Shoe-Leather Epidemiology / Jay Varma, Kimberly Joceyln, Maryama Diaw

 22min | Jul. 24th, 2020 Listen To This Episode
Episode 37

E37: Seeking Sanctuary / Julie Levey, Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove, Pastor Jamal Bryant

 27min | Jun. 21st, 2020 Listen To This Episode
Episode 36

E36: Alone Together / Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Lucy Flamm, Jeff Howe, Jackie Jones

 20min | Jul. 17th, 2020 Listen To This Episode
Episode 35

E35: What’s Essential Health Care in a Pandemic? / Cecile Richards and Kersha Diebel

 21min | Jul. 14th, 2020 Listen To This Episode
Episode 34

E34: Hands-On / Nicola Corl, Shannon Adams, Latia Curtis

 22min | Jul. 10th, 2020 Listen To This Episode
Episode 33

E33: The Privilege of Immunity / Kathryn Olivarius, Juanita Mora, Esha Bhandari

 22min | Jul. 7th, 2020 Listen To This Episode
Episode 32

E32: Epidemics Change History / Josh Loomis, Frank Snowdon

 26min | Jun. 30th, 2020 Listen To This Episode
Episode 31

E31: A Patchwork Pandemic / Ed Yong, Howard Koh

 26min | Jun. 26th, 2020 Listen To This Episode
Episode 30

E30: A Second Wave? / Howard Markel

 26min | Jun. 19th, 2020 Listen To This Episode
Episode 29

E29: A Magic Bullet? Monoclonal Antibodies / James Crowe

 29min | Jun. 16th, 2020 Listen To This Episode
Episode 28

E28: The Political Psychology of Pandemics / Michele Gelfand, Howard Lavine

 34min | Jun. 12th, 2020 Listen To This Episode
Episode 27

E27: Convalescent Plasma / Arturo Casadevall, Michael Busch

 28min | Jun. 9th, 2020 Listen To This Episode
Episode 26

E26: Indigenous Peoples / Rebecca Nagle, Melissa Begay, Jamescita Peshlakai

 30min | Jun. 5th, 2020 Listen To This Episode
Episode 25

E25: A COVID Vaccine / Seth Berkeley, Peter Hotez

 33min | Jun. 3rd, 2020 Listen To This Episode
Episode 24

E24: Is the CDC MIA? / Jim Curran, Mark Rosenberg

 31min | May. 29th, 2020 Listen To This Episode
Episode 23

E23: Our Immune System versus the Virus / Stanley Perlman, Jon Yewdell

 21min | May. 26th, 2020 Listen To This Episode
Episode 22

E22: A False Choice: The Economy versus Public Health / Rashad Robinson, Alicia Garza, Marshall Ganz

 23min | May. 22nd, 2020 Listen To This Episode
Episode 21

E21: Are Antibodies the Holy Grail? / Kaitlyn Sadtler, Matt Memoli

 25min | May. 19th, 2020 Listen To This Episode
Episode 20

E20: Not Business as Usual / Geoff Baird, Céline Gounder

 32min | May. 15th, 2020 Listen To This Episode
Episode 19

E19: A Return to Sports, a Return to “Normal” Life? / Peter King, Rohan Nadkarni, Grant Wahl

 25min | May. 12th, 2020 Listen To This Episode
Episode 18

E18: Without Shelter in a Storm / Rosanne Haggerty, Jake Maguire, Cindy Funkhouser

 16min | May. 12th, 2020 Listen To This Episode
Episode 17

E17: Getting Prepared / John Lynch, Syra Madad, Reid Wilson

 21min | May. 5th, 2020 Listen To This Episode
Episode 16

E16: Good and Bad Bosses / Adam Grant, William Kassler, Katie McGrath

 28min | May. 1st, 2020 Listen To This Episode
Episode 15

E15: Health Coverage in a Pandemic / Donald Berwick, Karen Pollitz

 38min | Apr. 28th, 2020 Listen To This Episode
Episode 14

E14: Disability Shouldn’t Be A Liability / Maggie Hassan, Rebecca Cokley

 27min | Apr. 24th, 2020 Listen To This Episode
Episode 13

E13: A Black Plague / Helene Gayle, Aletha Maybank

 22min | Apr. 21st, 2020 Listen To This Episode
Episode 12

E12: Covid and Punishment / Homer Venters, Norman Ornstein, Steven Leifman

 24min | Apr. 17th, 2020 Listen To This Episode
Episode 11

E11: Surviving COVID / David Lat

 29min | Apr. 14th, 2020 Listen To This Episode
Episode 10

E10: Dr Tony Fauci: From One Pandemic to Another / Mark Harrington, Peter Staley

 24min | Apr. 10th, 2020 Listen To This Episode
Episode 9

E9: Did Anybody See This Coming? / Juliette Kayyem

 25min | Apr. 6th, 2020 Listen To This Episode
Episode 8

E8: Unequal: Race, Status, and COVID-19 / Greg Asbed, Jeneen Interlandi

 32min | Apr. 3rd, 2020 Listen To This Episode
Episode 7

E7: The Destiny of Nations Depends on How They Feed Themselves / José Andres

 27min | Mar. 31st, 2020 Listen To This Episode
Episode 6

E6: We All Count: Civil Rights & Coronavirus / Vanita Gupta, Michael Macagnone

 30min | Mar. 27th, 2020 Listen To This Episode
Episode 5

E5: On the Frontlines and in People’s Minds / Adam Grant

 32min | Mar. 24th, 2020 Listen To This Episode
Episode 4

E4: Our Health System’s in Trouble / Andy Salvitt, Dan Diamond

 34min | Mar. 20th, 2020 Listen To This Episode
Episode 3

E3: Flatten the Curve / Craig Spencer, Helen Branswell

 34min | Mar. 13th, 2020 Listen To This Episode
Episode 2

E2: The Test Kit Debacle / Tom Frieden

 33min | Mar. 5th, 2020 Listen To This Episode
Episode 1

E1: Do We Need a Coronavirus Czar? / Céline Gounder, Ron Klain

 32min | Feb. 28th, 2020 Listen To This Episode

Bonus

Episode 3

Speaking Truth to COVID / Stacey Abrams

 30min | Apr. 25th, 2020 Listen To This Episode
Episode 2

A False Dichotomy: Airborne versus Droplet / Roxanne Khamsi, Lydia Bourouiba

 40min | Mar. 20th, 2020 Listen To This Episode
Episode 1

Running Out of Time / Michael Donnelly

 35min | Mar. 20th, 2020 Listen To This Episode