EPISODES
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On this page you’ll find each episode’s blog post with the episode audio, transcript, and further resources.
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What happens when capitalism, pandemics, and the enduring legacies of colonialism converge?
SPECIAL: Beyond Baggy Blues
Five ways to mitigate COVID transmission in hospitals with Dr. Dick Zoutman.
SPECIAL: “But my therapist said…” COVID-Informed Therapists Chat
Three mental health professionals speak on collective care and the importance of being informed about COVID as a practitioner.
How to Stop an Epidemic: When SARS Came to the ER
How an emergency physician and her team helped prevent a SARS outbreak at Vancouver General Hospital and what public health can still learn from a 2003 success.
Something’s in the Air (The Airborne Transmission Error)
How a mixup about airborne transmission led to one of the biggest public health errors in history and how we can course correct. It’s time for a paradigm change – hop aboard!
An Air-Raising Experience at the Orpheum Theatre
Take a field trip into a theatre built after the 1918 flu pandemic and learn how the ventilation system mitigates airborne disease transmission.
Long COVID: The Experts Were Wrong
A leading Long COVID researcher and a former Toronto cook living with the condition outline the growing global impact of unmitigated COVID.
Here Lies Public Health
What is public health? What is this podcast? Why so much about COVID?