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.

July 27, 2020

Secondary Symptoms #8: “Return to Normalcy”

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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July 8, 2020

Secondary Symptoms #7: Medical Imaginaries

Our whirlwind tour of the pharmaceutical industry ends this week. We’ve shown you the dysfunction, now we look for a better way. For some reason,…

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June 25, 2020

Secondary Symptoms #6: Pandemic Fat Cats

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.…

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June 6, 2020

Secondary Symptoms #5: I Can’t Breathe

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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May 23, 2020

Secondary Symptoms #4: The Covid Kings

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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May 7, 2020

Secondary Symptoms #3: Pandemic Amnesia

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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April 27, 2020

Secondary Symptoms #2: Not So Fast

It’s going to take a while, but we find glimmers of hope. We speak to Guardian journalist Sumanth Subramanian. He tells the story of one lab’s…

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April 17, 2020

Secondary Symptoms #1: Tin Foil Hats Stop Covid

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…

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