Coronavirus Pandemic

Series produced by Celine Gounder

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Infectious disease specialist, epidemiologist, and medical journalist Dr. Celine Gounder breaks down the science, public health and social impacts of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic every week on the EPIDEMIC podcast. This series is a collection of engaging short excerpts from the podcast designed to fit into a station’s broadcast clock.

Find full episodes of EPIDEMIC with Dr. Celine Gounder every Thursday on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

We invite a broad range of scientific experts and community voices to speak with us about the coronavirus pandemic. Recent episodes have discussed the impact of COVID on farmworkers, race-related disparities, civil rights, and parallels with the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Past guests include Dr. Tony Fauci, Dr. Tom Frieden, Dr. Helene Gayle, Senator Maggie Hassan, Andrew Slavitt, Stacey Abrams, Vanita Gupta, José Andrés, Adam Grant, Rashad Robinson, Cecile Richards, Arne Duncan, Scott Galloway, Kizzmekia Corbett, Tunde Wey, and many more.

EPIDEMIC launched on February 28, 2020 with the show's original co-host, Ron Klain, who is now President Joe Biden's Chief of Staff. Since the show started, Dr. Gounder has served on the Biden-Harris Transition COVID-19 Advisory Board through Inauguration.

Find full episodes of EPIDEMIC with Dr. Celine Gounder every Thursday on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

EPIDEMIC is a Just Human production. Find out more about this and our other podcasts at https://www.justhumanproductions.org Hide full description

We invite a broad range of scientific experts and community voices to speak with us about the coronavirus pandemic. Recent episodes have discussed the impact of COVID on farmworkers, race-related disparities, civil rights, and parallels with the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Past guests include Dr. Tony Fauci, Dr. Tom Frieden, Dr. Helene Gayle, Senator Maggie Hassan, Andrew Slavitt, Stacey Abrams, Vanita Gupta, José Andrés, Adam Grant, Rashad Robinson, Cecile Richards, Arne Duncan, Scott Galloway, Kizzmekia Corbett, Tunde Wey, and many more. EPIDEMIC launched on February 28, 2020 with the show's original co-host, Ron Klain, who is now President Joe Biden's Chief of Staff. Since the show started, Dr. Gounder has served on the Biden-Harris Transition COVID-19 Advisory Board through Inauguration.Find... Show full description


23 Pieces

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Deaths of Despair
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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Overdoses have spiked during the pandemic. One of the reasons is a breakdown in the community support so critical to keeping people off drugs. Soci...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2021
  • Length: 04:21
In For The Long Haul
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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COVID “long-haulers” are people who have extended experiences with COVID symptoms that never let up, or keep recurring. The virus is so new that we...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:03
Flattening the Infodemic Curve
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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Combating misinformation has become more important than ever during the pandemic. The novel coronavirus, social media, and a polarized political en...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:00
mRNA Vaccines, Years in the Making
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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In this episode, we’ll talk about the science behind mRNA vaccines, and discuss the logistics needed to get these revolutionary vaccines to the pub...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2021
  • Length: 04:09
Vaccine Access in Rural America
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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In this episode, we will hear how a healthcare worker in Rural Texas is getting the word out about vaccination despite a lack of resources.

  • Added: Apr 16, 2021
  • Length: 04:16
With Us, For Us
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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Black healthcare workers are taking on the mission to inform and hopefully convince more people of color to get vaccinated. We’ll hear where this o...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2021
  • Length: 03:52
A More Contagious and Virulent Variant
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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This winter a new, more contagious variant of SARS-CoV-2 arose in the United Kingdom: B.1.1.7. The CDC estimates that this will become the dominant...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2021
  • Length: 04:13
Medical Racism Past and Present
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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Black Americans are twice as likely to die from COVID as white Americans. Despite this, polls show that African-Americans are less interested in re...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 03:58
Invisible Women
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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Domestic workers have been especially hard hit by the pandemic but have been consistently excluded from bills meant to help frontline workers. In t...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2021
  • Length: 04:10
Vaccinating the World Part II: You Can’t Fight Scarcity with Scarcity
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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India is the world’s largest supplier of vaccines but the government there suspended the export of all COVID-19 vaccines after a devastating outbre...

  • Added: May 28, 2021
  • Length: 03:52
Techno-Racism & COVID at Home and Abroad
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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During the pandemic, disinformation campaigns have been targeting people of color with lies like African Americans can’t get COVID or denying the p...

  • Added: May 20, 2021
  • Length: 04:24
Zoonotic Viruses and Their Origins
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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There’s a lot we don’t know about the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus but there is a consensus that it came from animals. This is called zoonosis. H...

  • Added: May 14, 2021
  • Length: 04:18
Is SARS-CoV-2 Here to Stay?
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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The end of the pandemic might not mean the end of SARS-CoV-2. In fact, many scientists think COVID is here to stay, even with vaccines. In this seg...

  • Added: May 06, 2021
  • Length: 04:07
A World Wide Web of COVID Conspiracies
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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In this segment of EPIDEMIC, Dr. Celine Gounder looks at disinformation during the pandemic. Specifically, we’re going to look at how the Russian g...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2021
  • Length: 04:06
Epidemics Change History
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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Pandemics have played a huge role in human history. A cholera outbreak in Europe had huge implications for the way we see public health. And it was...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2021
  • Length: 04:06
Vaccinating the World Part I: The Problem with Patents
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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President Joe Biden said the United States would be the world’s “arsenal of vaccines” but critics say current plans to donate 80 million doses arou...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2021
  • Length: 03:40
Vaccination Verification: Ticket to Ride or Social Divide?
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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How do you let people who are fully vaccinated get back to normal life without creating super-spreader events for those who haven’t yet been vaccin...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2021
  • Length: 04:19
Caregiving as Infrastructure
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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The pandemic has upended caregiving and what it means to be a working mom. More than 2 million women have left the workforce because of the cost an...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2021
  • Length: 04:27
Women’s Health: Fertile Ground for COVID Myths
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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Some of the most persistent myths about coronavirus and the vaccines developed to fight it have to do with women’s health. In this segment, we’ll h...

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  • Added: Jun 24, 2021
  • Length: 04:17
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The Origins of Vaccine Hesitancy
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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More than half of all American adults have received a COVID-19 vaccine. But even though we’ve made great strides in our vaccination efforts, there ...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2021
  • Length: 03:27