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362 - COVID-19 and Vaccine Mandates
Season 3 Episode 362
Why has it come to mandates as a way to get people vaccinated against COVID-19? Stephanie Desmon and Dr. Joshua Sharfstein talk to Saad Omer, MBBS, M…
5 years, 1 month ago
361 - Friday Q&A With Dr. Amesh Adalja
Season 4 Episode 361
I am fully vaccinated with the Moderna vaccine. If I catch the delta variant will I acquire additional immunity—in addition to the immunity to the va…
5 years, 1 month ago
Bonus - Caring for Kids with COVID-19 in Florida
Season 3
Caring for Kids with COVID-19 in Florida. There are more children sick with COVID-19 in Florida today than ever before. Joseph Perno is an emergency …
5 years, 1 month ago
360 - Book Club: Gender Bias On Women's Health
Season 4 Episode 360
Public Health On Call producer Lindsay Smith Rogers speaks with Elinor Cleghorn, author of the book Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made…
5 years, 1 month ago
359 - The Back-to-School Episode
Season 3 Episode 359
It’s back-to-school time and the COVID-19 pandemic is still raging in many places. Stephanie Desmon talks to Keri Althoff and Elizabeth Stuart of the…
5 years, 1 month ago
BONUS - Treating Addiction in Jails and Prison
Season 4 Episode 1
2020 marked a historically high number of overdoses with more than 93,000 deaths in the United States. A particular risk for overdose is recent incar…
5 years, 1 month ago
358 - Are Hospitals Breaking the Law?
Season 4 Episode 358
Overdose death rates in the U.S. reached record highs during the pandemic. Stephanie Desmon talks to Sika Yeboah Sampong about a recent report from t…
5 years, 1 month ago
357 - The Link Between Evictions and Rising COVID-19 Cases
Season 3 Episode 357
Recent research led by Craig Pollack of Johns Hopkins and Kathryn Leifheit of UCLA suggests that more than 433,000 excess cases and 10,700 excess dea…
5 years, 1 month ago
356 - Climate Disruption and Our Health
Season 3 Episode 356
With a string of massive climate crises seemingly ever-present in the news, Dr. John Groopman, an environmental epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins B…
5 years, 1 month ago
355 - COVID-19 in the Land Down Under
Season 4 Episode 355
In the early days of the pandemic, Australia kept COVID cases low by closing its borders and instituting rigorous public health measures like contact…
5 years, 1 month ago