Dangerous Exponents: A Covid-19 Podcast
Science:Life Sciences
The U.S. and Europe have grown accustomed to hearing about vaccines from Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, and Johnson & Johnson. How about vaccines developed in Russia, China, and India that have been administered for weeks or months and are being given to millions of people in dozens of countries? Co-hosts Jeff Sackmann and Carl Bialik consider the varied approaches to vaccination and ask whether there's a better way.
Episode reading list:
https://zeynep.substack.com/p/why-you-should-take-any-vaccine
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/02/08/the-sputnik-v-vaccine-and-russias-race-to-immunity
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/india-coronavirus-vaccinations/2021/01/15/342a7282-55c9-11eb-acc5-92d2819a1ccb_story.html
https://www.wsj.com/articles/argentina-is-a-testing-ground-for-moscows-global-vaccine-drive-11610965529
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-06/putin-s-once-scorned-vaccine-is-now-a-favorite-in-pandemic-fight
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/russia-coronavirus-vaccine-sputnik/2020/11/25/8ebb62fe-186d-11eb-8bda-814ca56e138b_story.html?itid=lk_interstitial_manual_23
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/9/russia-china-seek-to-expand-mena-influence-through-vaccines
Hygiene Theater and Absolutism
Which Places Are Handling the Pandemic Best? How Can We Tell?
Masking Up
Everything Is A Tradeoff
How Can We Speed Up The Vaccine Rollout?
Virus Mutations And The Sluggish Vaccine Rollouts
Superspreader Events: How To Find Them And Stop Them
How Will We Get To Herd Immunity, And How Will We Know We've Gotten There?
Back To School: Is The Return To Classrooms Worth It?
All About Vaccines: How We Got Them, And Who Should Get Them First
How R and K Add Up To Dangerous Exponential Pandemic Growth
What Should We Do About Thanksgiving?
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