The Distance: Coronavirus Dispatches Podcast
1) Sheltering Native Foster Youth During Shelter in Place
In the midst of the pandemic, a new foster care model based on community living and known as a "children's village" has opened up to foster youth on the Cheyenne River Reservation. It's a collaboratio...Show More
2) Helping Others Sit With Death
Alua Arthur is a death doula in Los Angeles, California, where she helps people prepare for death emotionally, spiritually, physically, and even logistically. She says the pandemic itself has a lot in...Show More
3) Trans in El Salvador
Bianka Rodriguez is a transgender woman and activist in El Salvador who says the pandemic has hit the trans community especially hard -- and that even government aid programs discriminate against tran...Show More
4) From the Archive, Giving Thanks - Mothering a Newborn During Quarantine
Tanzina Vega is a journalist, host of The Takeaway, and a new mother. She gave birth to her son at the end of January--and not long after found herself raising a newborn alone while in quarantine. Hos...Show More
5) Saying Goodbye to Busking, For Now
Natalia 'Saw Lady' Paruz had been busking in the New York City subway for over 20 years until the pandemic forced her out -- leaving her without a place to do what she loves most. This story was repor...Show More
6) Living Through Another Lockdown in Kashmir
Rayan is a journalist in Kashmir, India’s only Muslim-majority territory, where a political lockdown imposed in August 2019 was starting to lift when COVID struck in March. We spoke with Rayan for a s...Show More
7) A Mental Health Crisis in Two Cities
Jordan Danielle experienced a mental health crisis that started in Philadelphia--but because of the pandemic, it took her two hospital admissions, an unwanted hospital release, and a solo train ride a...Show More
8) Flying to the US to Vote
Gabriel is a US citizen who immigrated to Stockholm, Sweden with his wife and kids because he believes it gives his family better quality of life. But with so much at stake in the US election, he deci...Show More
9) International Surrogacy During Lockdown
Joel’s daughter was born through IVF to a surrogate mother in Ukraine, in the middle of the pandemic. Because of travel restrictions, Joel ended up flying to Belarus alone and walking over the border ...Show More
10) Introducing VICE News Reports: Ep 1. Alternative Medicine, Politicized
Introducing a new podcast, VICE News Reports. Episode 1: Alternative Medicine, Politicized.As India’s health professionals battle the spread of COVID-19, some political leaders claim traditional medic...Show More