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Podcast: Is It Over?

Our pandemic podcast is ending, though the pandemic hasn’t ended around the world.
- June 11, 2021
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Podcast: Breakthrough Infections and Lonely Puppies

Things are starting to look up, at least in the U.S., but we’re looking ahead at potential future worries.
- June 3, 2021
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Podcast: It’s Time to Tango

Lots of your questions about the future after COVID-19 get answered, and one listener gives us a little history lesson.
- May 27, 2021
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Podcast: Dealing With Post-pandemic Trauma

The Atlantic staff writer Ed Yong talks with James Hamblin and Maeve Higgins about the ways, large and small, in which we’ve all suffered.
- May 20, 2021
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Podcast: Share the Vaccine ‘Recipe’

What difference could it make worldwide if the U.S. waived patents for vaccines?
- May 13, 2021
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Podcast: Long-COVID Questions Answered

A long-COVID patient and an immunologist help us understand the mysterious condition.
- May 6, 2021
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Podcast: The Consequences of Vaccine Nationalism

“One country’s crisis is every country’s crisis.”
- April 29, 2021
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Podcast: When Can I Take Off My Mask?

The rules need to change after vaccination. But carefully.
- April 22, 2021
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Podcast: How Much Should You Really Worry About the Vaccine-Blood-Clot News?

What the “pause” in Johnson & Johnson vaccinations means
- April 15, 2021
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Podcast: No Shirt. No Shoes. No Shots. No Service.

Vaccine passports, explained
- April 1, 2021
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Podcast: A History of Pandemic Xenophobia and Racism

A medical historian explains how we got to this point—and where we need to go from here.
- March 25, 2021
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Podcast: Infections, Vaccinations, and Other Questions

James Hamblin answers questions from callers with mild COVID-19 cases.
- February 25, 2021
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Podcast: ‘A Disaster for Feminism’

Why have the economic and psychological stresses of the pandemic hit women harder—and what can we do about it?
- February 19, 2021
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Podcast: A Forever Pandemic

Vaccines are a public good. Until the world regards them as such, the pandemic will not end.
- February 13, 2021
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Podcast: Can You Get Reinfected?

The Brazil variant raises a scary question—and reminds us that herd immunity matters across borders.
- February 4, 2021
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Podcast: Have We Turned the Corner?

Or is it still risky to be optimistic?
- January 29, 2021
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Podcast: Who Gets the Next Shot?

A bioethics expert on the moral questions facing our vaccine rollouts.
- January 24, 2021
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Listen: Coronavirus Mutations

How bad are the new COVID-19 variants, really?
- January 15, 2021
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Listen: How Badly Is Vaccination Going?

We’re behind, but that may change quickly.
- January 8, 2021
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Podcast: The Vaccine Is Here! What Now?

We’re very relieved, but now entering the strange time of vaccine purgatory.
- December 18, 2020

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