While COVID-19 continues to spread throughout most of the world, life is resuming a semblance of normalcy for some Americans, thanks to the miracle and privilege of available vaccines. What now? What can we expect from this phase of the pandemic and a post-vax summer? For today’s pandemic check-in, we first speak with Janel Heinrich […]
About COVID-19 and Pandemic Prevention
The Sars CoV-2 coronavirus, otherwise known as COVID-19, has been with us for about a year and a half, causing havoc everywhere, and a challenge to the science research community to try to solve this health crisis. A lot has been learned about COVID-19, what has been done to mitigate it, and what needs to […]
The Tragedy of American Science
During 2020, a year of enormous public health crisis as the COVID-19 pandemic took hold, the United States spent $37.4 billion dollars improving and updating its nuclear weapons arsenal and launched a new ballistic missile program. This is a gross misuse of not only tax dollars but scientific research and achievement, says science historian Cliff […]
Dane County drops public health orders
Across the state, local public health agencies are dropping their public health orders and mask mandates. The moves come as vaccination rates across the state climb, and as hospitalizations steadily decline. But, just because public health orders have been dropped doesn’t mean we’re entirely in the clear. For more, our producer Jonah Chester spoke with […]
Telling the Story of the Pandemic on Stage
In the fifth century B.C.E., the City of Athens was laid low with a terrible plague that killed many of the Ancient Greek city’s citizens. In 1998, researchers extracted dental pulp from bodies found in an ancient cemetery unearthed during excavations for the 2004 Olympics. The researchers were able to identify the disease that laid […]
Pregnancy and Parenting During a Pandemic
Social work professor Tova Walsh interviewed dozens of mothers who gave birth early in the pandemic. She herself had a baby in March 2020, just as Wisconsin’s stay-at-home orders went into effect. What she learned is that it’s been an unusual time for new parents, to say the least. Today on the show, Dr. Walsh […]
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