Best Coronavirus Pods

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The best podcast episodes about COVID-19.


  • 1

    695: Everyone's a Critic

    This American Life

    1:00:05 | Mar 1st, 2020

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    People squirming in a world where everything is rated and reviewed.

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    A Chinese citizen reporter takes the last train to Wuhan before the city shuts down. He records the day-to-day happenings on the ground. Must listen middle segment of this episode. The theme of this ...Show More

  • 2

    The floating petri dish

    Today, Explained

    24:43 | Feb 18th, 2020

    2 recommendations

    One coronavirus. Two cruise ships. Lots of mistakes. (Transcript here.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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    Horrifying account of what’s going on with coronavirus and cruise ships. Poses so many ethical questions about how countries react to situations like this and how unprepared we are for vital outbreaks...Show More

  • 3

    Virus Hunters

    Chasing Life

    12:47 | Mar 9th, 2020

    2 recommendations

    Where did the novel coronavirus come from? CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta talks to Dr. Peter Daszak, who hunts down the source of emerging diseases.To learn more about how CNN protec...Show More

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    The worst news I've heard all week: The coronavirus has no incentive to keep humans alive because we're not their native host. They've been in the bat population for thousands of years.

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    Carl Goldman was on the Diamond Princess cruise ship and now he has Covid-19. He speaks to Sean Rameswaram from a CDC quarantine in Omaha, Nebraska. (Transcript here.) Learn more about your ad choices...Show More

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    First first person account of someone that has Covid-19 that I’ve heard of. Guy caught it on the infamous cruise. He’s lucky to be an American. This helps de-stigmatize patients but the amount of peop...Show More

  • 5

    The Coronavirus Isn't Going Away

    Deep Background with Noah Feldman

    25:58 | Feb 28th, 2020

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    Marc Lipsitch, an epidemiologist at Harvard University, predicts that between 40 to 70 percent of adults in the world will become infected with the coronavirus.  Learn more about your ad-choices at h...Show More

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    There are only two ways out of this Coronavirus outbreak: 1) there’s a vaccine and a good portion of us get inoculated; 2) 40-70% of us who are adults get infected by the virus. Very informative episo...Show More

  • 6

    Where's The Vaccine?

    Planet Money

    20:36 | Mar 7th, 2020

    1 recommendation

    A vaccine would be great right now. Of course, people would buy it. But the market for emergency vaccines isn't like regular markets — that's why the government steps in.

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    Where's the COVID-19 vaccine?!? When will it be available? Why does the US government have 900k chickens stored in some mysterious place for vaccines purpose? Why don't we have coronavirus vaccine eve...Show More

  • 7

    We're here with you! And wow do you have questions. From stock market shutdowns to Coronavirus checks, to "What's the deal with toilet paper?" This episode, we try to answer a few.

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    FINALLY! A podcast that investigates the toilet paper hoarding and how it makes no economic sense because the demand for toilet paper constant, that is, that it's correlated to the number of humans. A...Show More

  • 8

    So far, the United States has been losing the battle against the pandemic, with a patchwork of inconsistent measures across the country proving unequal to halting the spread of the virus. Today, we as...Show More

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    We are SO F*CKED. The only way to solve this pandemic is if there's a magic wand that froze everyone in place 6ft away from each other for 2 weeks. But there's no magic wand. 😫

  • 9

    China's New Normal

    The Indicator from Planet Money

    08:38 | Mar 18th, 2020

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    China appears to have stopped the spread of coronavirus within its borders. People there are now beginning to adjust to a new normal.

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    If you're wondering what life would be like post-Coronavirus, this is a quick 7min snapshot of what it could look like. Though there are more "blue sky" days in Beijing (due to less pollution), it bre...Show More

  • 10

    Food And Farmworkers

    Planet Money

    17:07 | Mar 25th, 2020

    2 recommendations

    In this episode, to understand how the coronavirus might impact our food, we talk to an economist, a farmer, and, of course, the people who really make farms go — the farmworkers.

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    This podcast uncovers a horrifying truth! Farm workers are providing food for our grocery stores because vegetables and fruits need to get picked manually. But they live in horrid conditions without w...Show More

  • 11

    According to John Hopkins University, the United States has more than eighty-two thousand positive tests. Also: a nationwide three-week lockdown has begun in South Africa, and Russia has grounded all ...Show More

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    Terrific sweep around the world on how each country is dealing with COVID-19.

  • 12

    President Trump says an anti-malarial drug could be a “gift from god” for treating Covid-19. Does it really work? And is it dangerous? We talk to toxicologist Professor Daniel Brooks, infectious disea...Show More

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    Lots of chatter about chloroquine lately, but does it work? I appreciate this deep dive into the science behind this drug. So sad about the couple that took Trump's word for its face value and took ch...Show More

  • 13

    Lockdown while locked up

    Today, Explained

    28:34 | Apr 1st, 2020

    1 recommendation

    Arthur Longworth calls Sean from Washington State Reformatory to explain what it's like to serve a life sentence at a prison where the coronavirus is spreading. (Transcript here.) Learn more about you...Show More

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    An eye-opening look into what’s happening in America’s prisons when Coronavirus infiltrates. Eye witness account from an inmate who’s been in prison for decades for a murder, The prisons aren’t gettin...Show More

  • 14

    The Vaccine Trust Problem

    The Daily

    27:45 | Jul 21st, 2020

    6 recommendations

    Public health officials and private researchers have vowed to develop a coronavirus vaccine in record time. But could that rush backfire? Guest: Jan Hoffman, a health reporter for The New York Times. ...Show More

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    BAHHHHH! Only 50% of Americans would take the COVID-19 vaccine if it was available, but Dr. Fucci says 85% is best. Why do the don't want to take the vaccine? They don't trust Trump :(

  • 15

    B.C. recently hit its highest daily COVID-19 case count since the start of the pandemic, but the province isn’t going back into lockdown. The CBC’s Tanya Fletcher on why that is and what lessons that ...Show More

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    We're experiencing a second wave where I am, but the government is allowing everything to stay open and not rolling back. Some interesting reasons on why.

  • 16

    Researchers in Hong Kong have confirmed the first case of COVID-19 reinfection. The man who is 33 years-old, first had the coronavirus in late March and contracted the virus again in August while trav...Show More

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    So crazy. A guy gets reinfected by Coronavirus within months. They were able to tell because the West coast strain is different from the East coast's strain.

  • 17

    Heather Stewart and Peter Walker discuss the latest from Westminster. Plus Anita Boateng and Paul Harrison review the prime minister’s performance at the Conservative party conference. Help support ou...Show More

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    The UK government missed proper contact tracing for possibly hundreds of thousands of people because they exported the contact data into Excel, but Excel can't deal with millions of rows...and no one ...Show More

  • 18

    Invisible Allies

    Radiolab

    41:59 | Jul 31st, 2020

    4 recommendations

    As scientists have been scrambling to find new and better ways to treat covid-19, they’ve come across some unexpected allies. Invisible and primordial, these protectors have been with us all along. An...Show More

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    Must listen for COVID times!!! Vitamin D/sunlight might help fight COVID and copper helps kills microbes! Also, that doctor to the politician -- ok yea systemic racism is a thing, but can we just ge...Show More

  • 19

    EP 1: What will the world look like after COVID-19?

    Bill Gates and Rashida Jones Ask Big Questions

    43:57 | Nov 16th, 2020

    8 recommendations

    Ever since the pandemic started, we’ve heard the same refrain: we need to get back to normal. But what does “normal” even mean after such a history-changing event? Bill and Rashida discuss how COVID-1...Show More

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    Dr. Fauci joins Bill Gates and Rashida Jones on a very pragmatic easy-to-understand episode about life after COVID. I love how Rashida Jones would say things that exposes Bill Gates on his nerdiness a...Show More

  • 20

    Pfizer and BioNTech asked the Food and Drug Administration today to authorize their Covid-19 vaccine. We talk with the visionary scientist who developed the vaccine, Dr. Ugur Sahin, and the WSJ's Boja...Show More

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    Bless this scientist couple who keep on pushing innovation in medicine and created one of the first COVID-19 vaccine ready for approval. Their mRNA vaccine is truly *revolutionary* in the world of vac...Show More

  • 21

    A Contract Tracer on Her Overwhelming Job

    What Next | Daily News and Analysis

    28:53 | Nov 30th, 2020

    3 recommendations

    North Dakota has the highest COVID-19 case rate in the country. As infections spiked, contact tracers struggled to keep up. Eventually, their bosses told them to stop trying.  Guest: Kailee Leingang, ...Show More

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    This episode made me depressed about the reality that we're living in right now. Bless the work that contact tracers are doing. It's definitely PTSD-type work. The mental health crisis we're going to ...Show More

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