“When we think about a virus we don’t think as much about the i...

This is the second in our series on variants of concern. Our previous episo...

This winter a new, more contagious variant of SARS-CoV-2 arose in the Unite...

There’s a lot we don’t know about the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus bu...

“This is not like a lot of the other disasters that people have studi...

Overdoses have spiked during the pandemic. One of the reasons is a breakdow...

“It’s my responsibility as an owner to figure out how to afford...

“That’s the challenge with infodemics: too much information and...

“Masks are absolutely essential because you can’t always contro...

“If you’re going to be traveling, if you’re going to be i...

This, quite frankly, is our generation’s Manhattan project.  –...

“I was watching the nurses and the doctors and everyone in the health...

“Food is not going to solve the world’s problems because food i...

“There’s this toxic cocktail of low endowment per student, high...

“We have this long history of seeking personal and individual solutio...

“I would put this in very plain English: The way to protect the vulne...

“What could be more political [than] the determination of whether the pre...

Healthcare is political. There’s a difference between politics and pa...

“It’s not like the straight trajectory towards recovery…It ve...

“Public health is one of the few agencies locally that you can guaran...

“I think it’s a fascinating microcosm of the situation we’re in a...

“Right now … we are in the middle of it, [a] very politicized situation...

“If we want to bring students back to college, we have to redefine what c...

“The goal is not to reopen schools; it’s to keep schools open. And if w...

“Now that we see them, my hope is that our field of vision about who is w...

“I literally love my job… and being able to wake up and the end of the ...

“I don’t have any plans on returning in the immediate future. I don...

“Loneliness is something we hear a lot from individuals in our community....

“…the pandemic has simply highlighted for some people that hypo...

“They say, you need to keep a minimum of six feet distance between people...

“An immunity passport system would create a two-tier system because it wo...

“Just like cholera exposed the weaknesses in European society, COVID is d...

“We all believe that we need a national plan in the face of a national em...

“So when will it come back? You know, I’m a historian, so I’m...

“In our case, we’re trying to transfer an antibody from one per...

“In the United States, we have a relatively low threat history. We...

“With penicillin, for example, you needed a few days to begin to get bett...

“I think there’s always sort of like Indian humor with everything a...

“Terrible diseases like smallpox, polio, yellow fever where, you know, th...

“I think there are some people who are afraid that the truth will hur...

“Antibodies are the easiest part of the immune system to measure. It̵...

“Every night… we are literally cheering and clapping and beeping ou...

“A lot of people don’t realize this, but there are other cold-induc...

“Still, like 90% of our patients are COVID patients. This is still no...

“I can’t stress this enough. Rudy Gobert testing positive was t...

“It’s scary for everybody, but imagine yourself being someone that ...

“We want to make sure everybody’s prepared because we know COVID 19...

“We’re not working from home because we want to. Many of us are working...

“COVID-19 is the great revealer. It’s showing every crack and fault in ...

“Resources that we’ve been using as reasonable accommodations a...

“As a nation, we’ve got to put in place a public health system that...

“There’s no social distancing in the prisons, almost no protective gear...

“The other point I made about ventilators is, they’re not a pan...

“I mean, many of us spent the whole ‘80’s in a state of terror, knowi...

“It’s not an on/off switch. We are living with coronavirus until we...

“People who don’t have access to medical care, people who don’t h...

“I think today we are going to be doing roughly 125,000 meals across Amer...

“The nation is confronting this kind of social distancing and quarantine ...

“I have to say it’s really weird to be at Bellevue right now. O...

“I think as we get testing capability out, and we get the ability to trea...

“The goal is to try to keep as many people from being infected for as lon...

Our special guest this week is Dr. Tom Frieden, the former director of the ...

“We cannot build a wall, a real wall, or a metaphorical wall to keep this...

“We are not ready to put at risk the lives of those who are going to be o...

On March 14, 2020, Roxanne Khamsi published an article in Wired magazine: T...

Michael Donnelly is a professional data scientist, policy researcher, and e...