• Politics & Polls #187: South Korea’s Response to Covid-19 Featuring Asaph Young Chun

    May 28, 2020 Health Care, Podcasts, Policy

    Politics & Polls #187: South Korea’s Response to Covid-19 Featuring Asaph Young Chun

    When COVID-19 first emerged in South Korea, the country’s rapid response and decisive intervention enabled the country to detect cases early, slowing the spread of the infection and controlling mortality rates. Now, the country faces a new spike in cases, leaving many to wonder if a second wave is coming. Sam Wang and Julian Zelizer discuss South Korea’s response to Covid-19 in this episode featuring Dr. Asaph Young Chun, director-general of Statistics Research Institute in South Korea, the state-run think tank of official statistics and data innovation.

  • Politics & Polls #186: Using the 1918 Pandemic as a Blueprint for Today

    May 21, 2020 Health Care, Podcasts, Policy

    Politics & Polls #186: Using the 1918 Pandemic as a Blueprint for Today

    In grappling with the Covid-19 pandemic, many scientists and government officials are looking to the 1918 pandemic as a reference point for lessons learned. Also known as the “Spanish Flu,” this epidemic was the most sweeping of the 20th centurys. John M. Barry, a New York Times best-selling author, joins this episode to discuss his book, “The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History.”

  • ‘We Roar’ podcast: Battling the Racial Inequities of COVID-19

    May 8, 2020 Health Care, Podcasts, Research

    ‘We Roar’ podcast: Battling the Racial Inequities of COVID-19

    In the new “We Roar” podcast, surgical resident Glenn Wakam ’11 urges broad-based action to remedy health disparities exposed and amplified by the pandemic. “When this all started, COVID-19 was touted as the great equalizer,” said Wakam, currently volunteering in a Detroit-area hospital. “Officials said it didn’t matter your race, your religion, your socioeconomic status, that this would affect us all the same. That’s just not true.”

  • ‘We Roar’: Laura Conour maintains care for Princeton’s research animals

    May 1, 2020 Podcasts, Research

    ‘We Roar’: Laura Conour maintains care for Princeton’s research animals

    Even as about 90% of Princeton’s research labs are shuttered, care for research animals continues uninterrupted under the direction of Laura Conour, the University’s attending veterinarian and the director of Lab Animal Resources. “We’re still here,” Conour said on the latest episode of the “We Roar” podcast. “We’re doing what needs to be done.”