Brian Lehrer Weekend: Scott Gottlieb; NJ Gov Debate; Hispanic Heritage Calls
Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.What Went Right and Wrong with the Pandemic (First) | Recapping the New Jersey Candidates for Governor Debate (Starts at 35:30 ) |...
View ArticleReluctant Health Care Workers Finally Get Their COVID-19 Vaccines. What Took...
Arleene Meertens saw the worst of the COVID pandemic as a patient care technician at Kingsbrook Hospital in Flatbush. During Brooklyn’s first wave, she watched patient after patient struggle to pull...
View ArticleState Of COVID And Antiviral Pill, Future Pandemics. Oct 8, 2021, Part 1
First Malaria Vaccine Is Approved by WHOThe malaria parasite is one of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases, killing on average about 500,000 people per year—half of them children under the age of...
View ArticleVaccine Mandate Loophole
Christine Chung, Queens reporter for The City, talks about New York City's vaccine mandate for performance and sports venues that exempts visiting teams and performers.
View ArticleScience News Roundup: The Merck Pill, Vaccine Cross-Boosters and... William...
Nsikan Akpan, WNYC's health and science editor, joins for a roundup of the latest science-related news, including a closer look at the Merck pill, which could become the first oral antiviral COVID...
View ArticleCOVID News on Mixing and Matching Booster Shots, Vaccines for Children Under...
Céline Gounder, infectious disease specialist and epidemiologist at NYU and Bellevue Hospital, host of the podcasts Epidemic and American Diagnosis, and member of the Biden-Harris Transition COVID-19...
View ArticleMy Iron Lung
In the first half of the 20th century, the disease known as poliomyelitis panicked Americans. Just like COVID today, polio stopped ordinary life in its tracks. Tens of thousands were paralyzed when the...
View ArticleThe Pandemic Words We're Still Getting Wrong
This week, the FDA approved booster shots for the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines. But what does the additional shot actually do? “Booster” is just one example of scientific jargon that’s...
View ArticlePlot Twist
From boosters to breakthrough infections, pandemic vocabulary is still all over the news. On this week’s On the Media, why the terms we use to talk about the virus obscure as much as they reveal. And,...
View ArticleAsk a Pediatrician: COVID Shots for Kids Ages 5 to 11
Judith Flores, pediatrician, fellow at the American Academy of Pediatrics, past chief of ambulatory care at several NYC Health and Hospitals in Brooklyn, and currently working on vaccine engagement as...
View ArticleImmunity and Other Pandemic Words
Katherine Wu, staff writer for The Atlantic, where she covers science, talks about some of the key words and concepts around the pandemic -- and what we're getting wrong."Nine Pandemic Words That...
View Article30 Years Of Science Friday, Kansas’ Wind Energy Plan, Vaccinating Kids Under...
Behind The FDA’s Decision To Vaccinate Kids Under 12This week, Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for kids under 12 was officially recommended by the CDC, after a unanimous vote from its independent advisory...
View ArticleGood Things: Vaccines for Kids
Covid vaccines for kids 5 to 11 are rolling out across the city. WNYC’s Amy Pearl accompanied one enthusiastic 6-year-old to the Bronx for his shot.
View ArticleSecond COVID-19 Vaccine Doses Will Be Available for Children At NYC Public...
Mayor Bill de Blasio says COVID-19 vaccine sites are returning to public schools this week, following high demand from parents and young children. The clinics will begin offering second doses over a...
View ArticleCOVID News Roundup: Boosters and Rising Global Cases
Dr. Syra Madad, infectious disease epidemiologist, and senior director of the System-wide Special Pathogens Program at New York City Health + Hospitals, talks about recent COVID-19 headlines in the...
View ArticleThe Mayoral Transition; The Kyle Rittenhouse Trial Continues; High Inflation:...
Coming up on today's show:Sheena Wright, head of Mayor-Elect Eric Adams transition team and president and CEO of the United Way of New York City, talks about the mayoral transition process.Elie Mystal,...
View ArticleRapid COVID Tests And Your Family Thanksgiving
This year, with vaccinations still climbing and public health pros telling us it's relatively safe to gather for the holidays, we explore just how "relative" that safety is, and how to minimize the...
View ArticlePicking Right COVID Test For Holidays, “Big Bang Theory” Of Cancer. Nov 19,...
Here’s How Biden’s Infrastructure Bill Addresses SciencePresident Joe Biden signed a massive bipartisan infrastructure bill into law this Monday. The measure focuses on a range of sectors. It would...
View ArticleA Straightforward Guide To Reducing Your Holiday COVID Risk
COVID-19 has a knack for rebounding just as life starts to reopen a bit more in New York City.This fall, many businesses began hybrid operations — with a mix of office time and work-from-home...
View ArticleYour Questions Answered About Omicron and Travel Bans
A lot of questions are swirling about a newly detected COVID-19 variant, dubbed, 'omicron.' What do we know about it at this early stage, and what policies can address it?On Today's Show:Apoorva...
View ArticleThe Omicron Variant and Vaccine Inequity
On Thursday, scientists in South Africa identified Omicron, a new strain of the Covid-19 virus. In addition to South Africa the variant has been found in Europe, Australia and in Hong Kong. The high...
View ArticleCDC Closes Loophole That Kept Vaccine Trial Participants, Foreigners From...
Like many New Yorkers, I was eager to get a booster when the city opened up eligibility to everyone on November 15th. But to my shock and frustration, Bellevue Hospital denied me a shot the same day...
View ArticleBeing An Anti-Vax Talk Show Host Appears To Be A Risk Factor
In the current phase of the COVID pandemic, marked by the omicron variant and still-rampant misinformation, we wanted to take stock of where we are, and what the science tells us .On Today's...
View ArticleWhy Vaccine Mandates Seem To Cause Backlash
On Monday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a mandate requiring vaccinations for all employees of private companies.According to the mayor and his office, this mandate is the most effective...
View ArticleNYC's New Mandates
Elizabeth Kim, politics reporter for WNYC and Gothamist, talks about New York City's new vaccine mandate, which requires all private-sector employees to get at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine by...
View ArticleOmicron Choices For Society And For You
The rapid surge in COVID cases over just the past few days presents new challenges in navigating another pandemic holiday season.On Today's Show:Ed Yong, staff writer at The Atlantic, where he covers...
View ArticleHo-Ho-Omicron: Dr. Blackstock Takes Your Last-Minute Holiday COVID Questions
Uché Blackstock, emergency medicine physician, founder & CEO of Advancing Health Equity and an MSNBC medical contributor, talks about this season's least welcome holiday greeting, the omicron...
View ArticleEpstein-Barr Virus and MS, Agrivoltaics, Ag School Influence, Social Cues...
Scientists Are Working On A Universal COVID VaccineAs the Omicron wave of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spike around the U.S., there are scientists working not on variant-specific boosters, but on...
View ArticlePost-Omicron 'Normalcy'
Leana Wen, MD, emergency physician, professor at George Washington University, contributing columnist for The Washington Post, CNN medical analyst, former Baltimore Health Commissioner and the author...
View ArticleAdams brings back $100 vax incentives—but not for long
Starting Saturday, New Yorkers who get their Covid-19 booster can walk away with money in their pocket. WNYC's Brigid Bergin has the details.
View ArticleCelebrating Our Vaccine Heroes
This year we're celebrating some of the organizations who went above-and-beyond doing incredible work getting us vaccinated against COVID-19. Host Brian Lehrer is joined by Mitra Kalita, co-founder of...
View ArticleHow a Tennessee Nurse Unwittingly Became the Face of an Anti-Vax Campaign
On this week’s show, we share an excerpt of a new podcast hosted by friend-of-the-show and NBC News reporter Brandy Zadrozny. The podcast follows one the the most viral and lingering conspiracy...
View ArticleThe State of Our Immunity
With a springtime rise in Covid cases and a virus that keeps evolving, is the immunity we’ve built through repeated vaccination and past infection a solid enough bulwark at this stage in the pandemic?...
View ArticleWhat We Got Wrong About Herd Immunity
Back in 2020, the term "herd immunity" was the light at the end of the tunnel. If we could somehow gather enough antibodies from vaccines and natural infections, we could reach "full immunity" and...
View ArticleHow to Cover Long Covid
For some, a COVID-19 diagnosis can spiral into Long Covid, with months, or even years, of symptoms such as brain fog, fatigue, gastrointestinal issues, and nerve damage — and researchers still don't...
View ArticleParents seeking early COVID vaccines for kids under 5 strike out as NYC...
New York parents seeking the COVID-19 vaccine for their infants and toddlers have had little luck so far.Despite the federal government authorizing the vaccines for children ages 6 months to 5 years...
View ArticleBaby Blue Blood Drive
This is an episode that first aired in 2018 and then again in the thick of the pandemic in 2020. Why? Because though Horseshoe crabs are not much to look at, beneath their unassuming catcher’s-mitt...
View ArticleHow Did Nearly-Eradicated Polio Wind Up In Rockland County?
We use the appearance of a case of polio, which had been nearly eradicated in the US, as a lens to explore public health, and the relationship between tiny pathogens and broader society.On Today's...
View ArticleCancer Vaccines, Planting Wildflowers, Eating Copi Fish. August 5th, 2022,...
White House Declares Monkeypox Outbreak A Public Health EmergencyThe Biden administration declared the monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency on Thursday.Earlier in the week the White House...
View ArticleMar-a-Lago Documents; Toxic Arsenic Levels in a Lower Manhattan Housing...
Coming up on today's show:Devlin Barrett, Washington Post reporter focusing on national security and law enforcement, talks about the latest on the documents found at Mar-a-Lago, including at least one...
View ArticleA Young Doctor Reflects on COVID
The pandemic isn’t past tense. While COVID-19 vaccines have made it possible to gather with friends and hug loved ones again, the world is still living with the virus – and too many people are still...
View ArticleEnding the COVID Emergency
Daniel Griffin, MD, PhD, infectious disease physician with a PhD in molecular medicine, researcher at Columbia, Optum chief of the division of Infectious Disease, president of Parasites Without Borders...
View ArticleHealth workers in NYC describe confusion, errors in early days of asylum...
A medical company contracted by New York City to bring thousands of migrants up to date on vaccines struggled to train staff on how to choose doses and interpret international vaccine records in the...
View ArticleThe Troubling Wake of An Anti-Vaxx Campaign
Almost 20 years ago, RFK Jr. called Dr. Paul Offit, a pediatrician specializing in infectious diseases, vaccines, immunology, and virology and the co-inventor of a rotavirus vaccine, to talk about the...
View ArticleDon’t call it a booster: What NYC should know about COVID vaccines this year
As much as no New Yorker wants it to be true, COVID-19 is still around and making people sick. After a bump in cases and hospitalizations this summer, health experts now say it’s time to get ready for...
View ArticleRSV Drug Shortage & Beech Leaf Disease
RSV has reached epidemic levels in the southern US. Also, beech leaf disease is spreading rapidly in Massachusetts.RSV Drug For Infants In Short SupplyRespiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, is a common...
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