The coronavirus pandemic has us all asking a lot of questions: How long will I have to practice “social distancing”? Will there be a cure for COVID-19? Can I ever touch my face again?
WABE health reporter Sam Whitehead and guests will try to answer those questions. He’ll talk with experts, public officials, journalists, and everyday people about how the coronavirus is affecting their lives.
Adriane Casalotti, with the National Association of County and City Health Officials, says the Biden administrations promise to pump more than $7 billion into the nation's public health system could help fight COVID-19 and future pandemics. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Glen Nowak, former director of media relations for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, discusses the behind-the-scenes work that goes into the agency's public health guidance. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Amit Prasad, a sociologist at Georgia Tech, says there are cultural and historical reasons why people believe misinformation about the pandemic and knowing that can help address its spread. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jennie Lavine, who studies infectious disease dynamics at Emory University, says it's likely the coronavirus will be with us for a long time, but that doesn't necessarily mean a bleak future. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Justin Lessler, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, says we'll reach herd immunity eventually. What's less certain is how many people will get sick and die along the way. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Selena Simmons-Duffin, health policy reporter for NPR, says still still not clear how federal officials' decision to briefly pause administration of Johnson & Johnson's vaccine will impact the national vaccination effort. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Cheryl Klaiman, a psychologist with the Marcus Autism Center, says the disruptions of the pandemic have been especially challenging for kids with autism spectrum disorder, but many have found ways to cope. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Rachel Kidman, an epidemiologist at Stony Brook University, says more than 40,000 children have likely lost parents to COVID-19 and other causes of death related to the pandemic, and the number continues to grow. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Andy Miller, editor of Georgia Health News, says healthcare wasn't the biggest issue for state lawmakers during the recently-wrapped 2021 legislative session, despite the pandemic. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
During the pandemic, the Tuskegee syphilis study has been invoked as a reason for vaccine hesitancy in the Black community. But Doctor Rueben C. Warren, director of the Tuskegee University National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care, says it's not that simple. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Brian Castrucci, with the de Beaumont Foundation, says many self-identified Republicans are reluctant to get vaccinated against COVID-19, but his nonprofit has found some ways to convince them. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
George Painter, president of the Emory Institute for Drug Development, says antiviral drugs play an important role in fighting this pandemic and the next one. A drug he developed is currently going through clinical trials. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Julie Rovner, chief Washington correspondent for Kaiser Health News, says the Biden administration's COVID-19 aid plan does a lot to strengthen the Affordable Care Act and make it's coverage more attainable. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Two experts who have been fighting COVID-19 for the last year — Dr. Carlos del Rio from Emory University and Fulton Board of Health director Dr. Lynn Paxton — share what they think comes next in the pandemic. The conversation was recorded during a recent live taping of the podcast. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Thursday, March 4th at 7:30 PM EST, WABE health reporter Sam Whitehead will be joined by a panel of experts to discuss what comes next in the pandemic, and what we've learned about the coronavirus in the last year. Dr. Carlos del Rio from Emory University and Dr. Lynn Paxton, Fulton county's health director, will share stories from the front lines of fighting COVID-19 and take your questions. Sign up for this free, virtual event at www.wabe.org/community See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy i...
Tia Mitchell, Washington correspondent for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, says the $1.9 trillion plan could mean lots of aid for Georgians, but isn't likely to garner bipartisan support. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Shivani Patel, who's been tracking equity issues related to the coronavirus pandemic, says getting the most-vulnerable communities equal access to COVID-19 vaccines helps everyone. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Alexis Madrigal, co-founder of The COVID Tracking Project, talks about the decision to stand down The Atlantic's effort to collect and share data about the coronavirus. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Cody Hall, director of communications for Governor Brian Kemp, says if he could change anything about the state's COVID-19 vaccine rollout, he'd have state leaders talk more about supply constraints. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Philip Santangelo, a biomedical engineering researcher at Georgia Tech, explains how the mRNA vaccines for COVID-19 from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna work--and how scientists know so much about them. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Joy Fernandez de Narayan, who manages the 'street medicine' program for the Mercy Care clinic, says the program that offers care to people experiencing homelessness in Atlanta has had to change to keep providing services during the pandemic. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dr. Jermaine Jackson, who runs Piedmont Healthcare's Pulmonary COVID-19 Recovery Clinic, says some people spend months dealing with the consequences of a coronavirus infection. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dr. Audrey Arona, who leads the health district that serves Gwinnett county, says her office has seen high demand for COVID-19 vaccines even though supplies remain low. (Audio updated 1/21/21) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Vivian Ho, health economist at Rice University, says there's a relationship between a state's decision to issue strict lockdown measures early in the pandemic and how many COVID-19 deaths ultimately occurred there. More here: https://www.bakerinstitute.org/research/state-restrictions-and-covid-19-death-rate/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Thomas Friedrich, professor of virology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says a new, more transmissible variant of the virus that causes COVID-19 could have big implications for the pandemic in the U.S. if its starts spreading widely in the country. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dr. Bruce Y. Lee, professor of health policy and management at the City University of New York, says it's no small feat to get vaccines from where they're produced to where they're administered--but it's a critical part of any vaccination effort. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Anna Barry-Jester, a reporter with Kaiser Health News, says public health leaders are facing more public scrutiny during the pandemic, and that's pushed many to leave their jobs. She chronicled many of their stories with colleagues from KHN and the Associated Press. Read more here: https://khn.org/news/article/pandemic-backlash-jeopardizes-public-health-powers-leaders/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
We’ve talked to a lot of people this year in Georgia who’ve been personally touched by the pandemic: they've been sick, they've lost loved ones. As we approach the end of 2020, we’re listening back on some of those conversations. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
As we approach the end of 2020, we’re revisiting some of the conversations that touch on what COVID-19 has exposed about the world we live in and how we can live safely in it. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dan Wakin, an obituaries editor at the New York Times, says his paper has been working for months to tell the stories of some of victims of the pandemic in a project called "Those We've Lost." View the project here: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/obituaries/people-died-coronavirus-obituaries.html See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
