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Episodes

Omicron Mitigation, Djokovic, Dumb COVID Tweets

In this Omi-sode: 1) Can omicron be mitigated AT ALL? The Bay Area experience currently. 2) Novak Djokovic and the COVID vaccine 3) Covidiots vs. Covidians, where is the Alt-Middle? Rogan's role. 4) The dumbest tweets of 2021 5) Who was most right about COVID policy? Subscribe to "The VPZD Show" on your favorite podcast app. Check out our new Substack collaboration, "Sensible Medicine" here. Dr. Prasad's "Plenary Session" podcast. Dr. Damania's "ZDoggMD Show" podcast. More on Vinay. More on Zubi...

Jan 06, 2022•50 min•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast

Your Date With Omicron, "Fringe" Scientists, Myocarditis, COVID & College Kids

Many questions addressed on this last episode of 2021! Should people who talk about COVID policy actually see COVID patients, and are doctors biased by their daily practice experience? How should holiday meals "safely" occur, and how can we understand risk and risk reduction? Are Vinay and Zubin wrong about the response around college students and COVID? Did Francis Collins try to discredit "fringe epidemiologist" Jay Bhattacharya and his colleagues instead of promoting dialog? Why is Dr. Z so s...

Dec 27, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast

Rogan/McCullough, Boosters & Omicron, Myocarditis Trial Data, Virtue Signaling

This week we dive into Dr. Z's personal booster decision, do vaccines reduce transmission in setting of variants like Omicron, Joe Rogan’s interview with Dr. Peter McCullough , the hypocrisy of physicians who demand masks and distancing and then do the opposite themselves, medical students speaking out against distance learning, new myocarditis trial data with implications for Moderna and spacing vaccines in general, meditation stuff, the problem with virtue signaling, the number needed to boot ...

Dec 15, 2021•1 hr 26 min•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast

Stifling Physician Voices, Politicized Journalism, German Kids Study, Policy Solutions

In this episode we dive into some emails Dr. Z received about hospital COVID policies and medical education (and how our leaders are screwing up), the problem with mandates in healthcare, and strongly negative feedback for us from a critical care nurse on the front lines about our vaccine messaging. In the news, we react to NPR’s piece saying Trump voters more likely to die of COVID, what is the nature of “misinformation” on both sides of the political spectrum, the challenges of quantitative jo...

Dec 10, 2021•1 hr 29 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast

Omicron Panic, Natural Immunity, Fluvoxamine, Boosters, Fauci (w/ Dr. Marty Makary)

Dr. Marty Makary joins the fray for a science & reason SMACKDOWN 🔥 How many Omicrons does this register on the media fear-o-meter? Check out all our shows with MedPage today editor-in-chief Dr. Marty Makary here. And all our shows with UCSF hematologist-oncologist Dr. Vinay Prasad here. And our new joint podcast, The VPZD Show, here. And here's the video version of this interview! Topics & Timecodes: 0:00 Intro 2:17 Boosters for All? 8:47 Young people + Covid, flawed CDC studies? 12:45 Natural ...

Dec 04, 2021•2 hr 40 min•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast

Dr. Oz, Omicron, Boosters, Saving Science

For the week ending Dec. 1st 2021, VP and ZD dive into Dr. Oz running for the senate, the Omicron gambit, dumb travel restrictions, what the heck with boosters 4 all, poor quality science and biased scientific oversight, and MUCH more! Here's all our other shows featuring VP. Subscribe to "The VPZD Show" on your favorite podcast app. Check out our new Substack collaboration, "Sensible Medicine" here. Dr. Prasad's "Plenary Session" podcast. Dr. Damania's "ZDoggMD Show" podcast. More on Vinay. Mor...

Dec 01, 2021•2 hr 51 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast

Kids Inside For Thanksgiving? Should Fauci Quit? Boosters 4 All?

Dr. Z and Dr. Vinay Prasad get unfiltered about the NY Times recommendations for a safe COVID Thanksgiving, whether Dr. Fauci should quit, and whether a healthy young person should get a Moderna booster, and more! Here's all our other video episodes featuring VP. Subscribe to "The VPZD Show" on your favorite podcast app. Check out our new Substack collaboration, "Sensible Medicine" here. Dr. Prasad's "Plenary Session" podcast. Dr. Damania's "ZDoggMD Show" podcast. More on Vinay. More on Zubin. L...

Nov 24, 2021•1 hr 23 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast

Medication, Mandates, Middle Ground

In this inaugural episode of our new collaborative show, Dr. Vinay Prasad (UCSF hematologist/oncologist) and Dr. Zubin Damania (AKA the hospitalist known as ZDoggMD) team up for a medical show designed to bring you up to speed on the weeks events with a nuanced, Alt-Middle perspective. Here's all our other shows featuring VP. Subscribe to "The VPZD Show" on your favorite podcast app. Check out our new Substack collaboration, "Sensible Medicine" here. Dr. Prasad's "Plenary Session" podcast. Dr. D...

Nov 18, 2021•1 hr 26 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast