This week on PNM, Ary & Josh discuss current COVID-19 vaccines: what they are, how they work, how they came out so quickly, and whether or not you should be nervous about them. (Spoiler alert: you shouldn’t be nervous!) We used Ary’s master Google Doc to shape this show, so feel free to check out […]
COVID + Vaccines (Edited from “A Public Affair” Dec. 1, 20...
Tonight, the Perpetual Notion Machine has aired an edited version from a previous episode of the WORT daily afternoon program A Public Affair. PNM has done a fair number of its own episodes concerning the COVID-19 pandemic. But on Dec. 1, 2020, host Carousel Bayrd talked with Dave O’Connor about what we have learned about […]
Governor Evers Submits Compromise COVID Bill to State Legislature
Picture taken from Flickr under the Creative Commons License. Yesterday, Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers announced a compromise COVID-19 relief bill. The new proposal would cost $100 million, much less than Evers’ $541 million proposal announced in November. That same day, Governor Evers sent a memo to Assembly Speaker Robin Vos highlighting some of the areas […]
DHS and UW Health Prepare for Pfizer Vaccine
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services announced today that it has begun working with UW Health to prepare the distribution of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine, giving more detail on one of the fastest vaccine rollouts in history. But health officials stress that large-scale distribution is likely still months away. Stephanie Schauer, director of the Division […]
What We Know about the COVID-19 Vaccines
With several promising COVID-19 vaccines announced in the past few weeks, we spend today’s show learning about vaccine development and distribution with professor Dave O’Connor. Over the course of the hour, Carousel and Dave field a slew of listener questions about the pandemic and vaccines including medical supply manufacturing, COVID testing, the efficacy of the […]
Dear Pandemic, Wisconsin is Not Fine
Last night, Gov. Tony Evers announced an executive advisory urging Wisconsinites to stay home as COVID-19 cases surge throughout the state. What can we do to protect ourselves and our communities during this new spike? Today, we spend the hour with Dr. Malia Jones and Dr. Amanda Simanek—two of the experts behind the popular public […]
