Playlist: Coronavirus
Compiled By: PRX Editors
Specials for this time.
Class of COVID-19
From WHYY | Part of the The Pulse Specials series | 58:59
Fall usually means the start of a new school year — but for millions of American kids, it marks the continuation of an extended limbo that’s come to define their lives. With the pandemic, uncertainty, upended routines, and constant change have come to replace the usual hallmarks of growing up — from school plays and sports, to proms and graduations. And then there are the smaller moments: hangouts with friends, birthday parties, and first crushes. How is all of this affecting kids? On this episode, we explore what it’s like to grow up in the shadow of COVID-19, and how kids are dealing with the added pressures. We hear stories about what it’ll take to return safely to school, what kinds of (life) lessons kids miss when learning goes online, and some of the unexpected ways the virus is affecting children’s health
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Pandemic ER: Notes from a Nurse in Queens
From Atlantic Public Media | Part of the The Transom Radio Specials series | 59:00
War correspondents are charged with reporting from the frontlines. Putting themselves in risky situations, documenting, and sharing what they see for those of us who are not there to see it for ourselves.
Kate O'Connell is a radio producer and a registered nurse who lives and works in New York City, where the coronavirus hit with force. In addition to working in an ER in Queens, Kate has also been chronicling her experiences with the overwhelming reality of this pandemic.
140: What does COVID-19 Mean For Feminism? - Eve Rodsky, author of "Fair Play"
From KALW | Part of the Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller series | 54:00
Eve Rodsky has spent almost a decade surveying women and men about who does what at home to understand how and why we divide up labor along gender lines--and how to shift it--she’s talked with Economists, Psychologists, Historians, Neurologists and more. And she wrote a book called "Fair Play" that details exactly how to divide and conquer with your partner, the unending duties at home. I wanted to know if COVID-19 could be the inflection point that changes how partners divvy up the housework and childcare. We spoke for a second time in May, 2020.
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Now that we are all tethered to our homes, you may be doing more laundry, dishes, cooking, cleaning (did I say dishes?), nose wiping, bottom wiping and emotionally tending to your kids and teens. So it seems super timely for us to talk to the woman who has emerged as a leader in the movement to end the gendered division of labor at home and how to divvy up that labor as equitably as possible. Eve Rodsky has spent almost a decade surveying women and men about who does what at home to understand how and why we divide up labor along gender lines--and how to shift it--she’s talked with Economists, Psychologists, Historians, Neurologists and more. And she wrote a book that details exactly how to divide and conquer with your partner, the unending duties at home. It’s called "Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution For When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live)". If you’ve been listening to Inflection Point, you may have also caught my conversation with Eve at INFORUM last year. I wanted to hear how her system is working in the Covid-19 world. We spoke live (on Zoom, of course) for The Battery in San Francisco about how to make changes that are a win for everyone in your home and in society.
Our Show
From Atlantic Public Media | Part of the The Transom Radio Specials series | 58:59
When COVID-19 struck, Producer Erica Heilman was looking for a way to be useful. She wasn't needed to make school lunches or volunteer at the hospital, so she asked her podcast listeners if they wanted to make something together. Word spread. Around the world. "Our Show" is a gathering of voices, a voluntary oral history of this moment on the planet, a global vox pop.
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Produced for Transom.org
Stories from a Pandemic (Series)
Produced by The Nocturnists
The Nocturnists: Stories from a Pandemic is an audio miniseries that follows healthcare workers' daily lives as they navigate the coronavirus pandemic.
Most recent piece in this series:
Stories from a Pandemic - Ep.1: New World
From The Nocturnists | Part of the Stories from a Pandemic series | 31:14
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In this first episode of our special podcast series, healthcare workers reflect on the imminent patient surge that we have all been bracing for across the United States. It is the calm before the storm.
You will hear the voices of a trauma nurse in San Francisco, a pediatric emergency medicine doctor in New York City, a Durable Medical Equipment (DME) truck driver in the Southern US, a neonatologist in Pennsylvania, a neurosurgery resident in Los Angeles, an emergency medicine physician in Arizona, and an internal medicine resident in New York City.
A SUDDEN LOSS - A Memorial To Lives Lost To COVID-19 (59:00 / 54:00 / 29:00/ plus optional 2nd hour)
From Paul Ingles | 01:57:59
Popular public radio hosts, past and present, read short eulogies to just some of the tens of thousands lost to the coronavirus pandemic in the last several months.
Music accents include songs by Eddie Vedder (The Long Road), Robbie Robertson (Fallen Angel), Joni Mitchell (Both Sides Now), Bruce Springsteen (Missing), Aretha Franklin (Amazing Grace), John Prine (Summer's End / Boundless Love), U2 (Peace on Earth).
NOTE: Some songs are not in the 29:00 version.
Outbreaks and Epidemics: The Role of Public Health
From WHYY | Part of the The Pulse Specials series | 58:59
You know you've made it when you get parodied on Saturday Night Live … by none other than Brad Pitt. And you really know you’ve made it when Pitt breaks character to thank you for your service. That was an honor recently bestowed upon Anthony Fauci, America's bespectacled top infectious disease physician, who’s achieved rock star levels of fame in recent weeks. Usually, though, public health officials have much lower profiles. They’re behind-the-scenes thinkers and doers, who help keep their communities healthy with initiatives like traffic safety, vaccinations, and fluoridated water. In the best of times, we don’t even know they’re there — but during disease outbreaks, their work kicks into high gear. So how did this field get its start? And what can we learn from past crises, starting with the yellow fever outbreak of 1793, through the AIDS epidemic, into the present? In this episode, we hear stories about the origins of public health; how the 1918 flu pandemic shaped the modern bathroom; and how schools and public health became a power couple
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Yellow Fever Outbreak
We explore the very beginnings of public health in America by telling the story of the yellow fever epidemic of 1793, which ravaged the young nation’s capital.
Vaccines and schools — a public health power couple
Every school year, in all 50 states, parents have to prove their kids have received certain vaccines before enrolling them in school. Specific requirements differ from state to state, but the general rules is the same: no vaccines, no school. Reporter Avi Wolfman-Arent explores how this relationship between schools and public health took root.
What is public health?
Alison Buttenheim, an associate professor of nursing and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania, joins us to talk about the role of public health during the coronavirus outbreak and explains why the core of her job is to make it seem like nothing’s happened.
Lessons from HIV/AIDS pandemic
What lessons can we learn from America’s last major epidemic — HIV/AIDS? We ask Carlos Del Rio, a professor of medicine and global health at Emory University, about how public health approaches shaped the HIV epidemic, and vice versa.
How a pandemic inspired your bathroom
During the coronavirus outbreak, we’re constantly hearing about the importance of washing our hands and keeping surfaces clean. A little more than 100 years ago, this same concern over cleanliness emerged during the 1918 flu pandemic. Architect David Feldman joins us to discuss how this past pandemic helped to shape our homes — especially the bathroom.
Coronavirus Conspiracism
From Open Source | Part of the Open Source with Christopher Lydon series | 59:00
Conversations with Errol Morris, Anna Merlan, and Jay Rosen about conspiracy theories of the pandemic.
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- Coronavirus Conspiracism
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What we’re learning again in coronavirus time is that when the medical system stumbles in a pandemic – and when the media machinery, the chattering class stumbles on top it – watch out! Something like it happened two centuries ago when Yellow Fever struck New York and Philadelphia. Nobody knew then to blame the mosquitos that carried the bug, so a society of feckless thinkers – the Illuminati, so called — took the heat. We are in a boom time again for blaming all sorts of people for COVID-19: Bill Gates, Globalism, Dr. Fauci, China. It is high season for conspiracism, and YouTube videos have become the place to tune in.
There’s a boisterous new kid on the media block, at an active corner in the coronavirus conversation. People get there on Google’s YouTube channel on the Internet. The stream of videos can have a compelling voice, a documentary look, lots of added effects and typically the feel of a hard sell. Lots of people hear it as propaganda. Lots of others hear a galvanizing truth.
Mental Health in Times of Crisis
From WHYY | Part of the The Pulse Specials series | 58:59
The COVID-19 outbreak is creating increased demand for mental health services — lots of people are feeling anxious, or are getting depressed. At the same time, traditional mental health services have been disrupted. In-person sessions are not possible at the moment, nor are group sessions. How are providers and their clients adjusting? We take a look at mental health services and what people are doing to stay well during these difficult times. We also hear stories of families affected by serious mental health issues, and why they say the system fails too many people
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- Mental Health in Times of Crisis
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Finding help for schizophrenia in a ‘broken’ system
Conversations with host Maiken Scott
Bedlam
Finding Resilience During a Pandemic
From WHYY | Part of the The Pulse Specials series | 58:59
What does it take to get through a global pandemic? How do you keep going, keep working, get up every day and hope for the best? Around the world, people are discovering the answer through their own sense of resilience — the resources within ourselves and our communities that brace us against outside pressures, allowing us to bend, and not break. On this episode, we explore what resilience means, with stories about people facing down sometimes impossible situations, and finding a way to adapt, recover, and eventually bounce back. We hear about an Olympic athlete who is dealing with the historic postponement of Tokyo 2020, an ER nurse in New York City treating patients with COVID-19, and we’ll find out why kids may emerge stronger on the other side of this pandemic.
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- Finding Resilience During a Pandemic
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How do elite athletes deal with a delayed Olympics?
Fighting the odds to find a cure
Pandemic ER: Notes from a nurse in Queens
Tradeoffs
When will this be over?
Conversations with host Maiken Scott
What it means to be resilient?
Shared resilience
Transmission Times: Radio Diaries During COVID-19 (Series)
Produced by Katie Semro
Audio diaries from around the world giving us a glimpse of daily life during the pandemic.
Most recent piece in this series:
End of Year Special: Part 2
From Katie Semro | Part of the Transmission Times: Radio Diaries During COVID-19 series | 28:03
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- End of Year Special: Part 2
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From freezer trucks in New York City to obsessive cleaning, from unemployment to arrows on the grocery store floor, this Special vividly captures the pandemic as we lived it.