Secondary Symptoms
COVID19 broke out during our season, “the Science Wars.” So we decided to do a mini-series, Secondary Symptoms. It was about the diseases’ ‘secondary symptoms;’ what it is doing to our politics, our economy, our scientific communities, and our social fabric.
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Secondary Symptoms #8: “Return to Normalcy”
More...The phrase “return to normalcy” has been thrown around a lot lately. It’s actually a phrase that was popularized in 1920, in the wake of…
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Secondary Symptoms #7: Medical Imaginaries
More...Our whirlwind tour of the pharmaceutical industry ends this week. We’ve shown you the dysfunction, now we look for a better way. We look at ways we can fundamentally change the industry, and medicine itself.
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Secondary Symptoms #6: Pandemic Fat Cats
More...There’s another coronavirus. This one, causing horrific swelling in cats, even killing them. Gilead Pharmacueticals might have a drug that can cure this feline coronavirus. Yet, they’re not sharing that drug, possibly because they’re scared it might harm their chances with another drug: Remdesivir. You may have heard of it; it’s the supposed ‘gold standard’ of care for COVID-19. The story of Remdesivir (and of the black market cat drug sibling) reveals how pharmaceutical companies do their research, and the lengths they go to protect their profits.
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Secondary Symptoms #5: I Can’t Breathe
More...The brutal public lynching of George Floyd has sparked a rebellion against police violence and systematic racism. The mostly peaceful protests are courageously rising up,…
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Secondary Symptoms #4: The Covid Kings
More...This week, we put the pieces together and solve a different kind of mystery at the heart of Tiger King. I liked the show so…
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Secondary Symptoms #3: Pandemic Amnesia
More...Last time we opened up too fast, we paid dearly. There were celebratory parades when Americans thought the 1918 Spanish Flu was over and done…
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Secondary Symptoms #2: Not So Fast
More...Glimmers of hope. Guardian journalist Sumanth Subramanian. He tells the story of one lab’s push for a Covid-19 vaccine, and the promising new technology they’re using.
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Secondary Symptoms #1: Tin Foil Hats Stop Covid
More...We never planned for this. Cited was going to just make documentaries for you this season, but then the whole world changed. So, we had to change too. For at least the next two months, we’ll be releasing a weekly news-magazine style show about the Covid-19 pandemic. We’re calling it Secondary Symptoms.