EPIDEMIC with Dr. Celine Gounder

By the mid-1970s, India’s smallpox eradication campaign had been grinding for over a decade. But the virus was still spr... Read more

In the mid-’60s, the national campaign to eradicate smallpox in India was underway, but the virus was still widespread t... Read more

"Eradicating Smallpox” is a journey to South Asia, the site of the last days of variola major smallpox. Many epidemiolog... Read more

In the years leading up to the pandemic, Dr. Celine Gounder, the host of the EPIDEMIC and American Diagnosis podcasts, h... Read more

"It's a really interesting question: how do we get closure in this pandemic?  I think a lot of people have hurt and loss... Read more

"Pregnant women who have SARS-CoV-2 are more likely to be admitted to the ICU, to need a ventilator  and are more likely... Read more

"The pandemic has given us an opportunity to finally change this and if we don't, the economic impact from the fallout o... Read more

"When you're building a system like a vaccine passport you're potentially excluding millions of people because they don'... Read more

"You can't fight scarcity with scarcity. The only way out of the vaccine problem is by making a lot more of it." -James ... Read more

"It's a triumph of science and engineering that we now have multiple effective COVID vaccines. We just need to find the ... Read more