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Betsy Ladyzhets, founder and editor-in-chief of the COVID-19 Data Dispatch (CDD), which explores the state of COVID-19 data in the United States, talks with SWINY co-chair David Levine about the CDD's reporting on how five school districts kept their communities safe from COVID-19. This project fits into a school of reporting called “solutions journalism.” Rather than focusing on uncovering society’s problems, this type of journalism seeks to identify and uplift responses to these problems. In other words, instead of asking, “Why was it so hard to reopen schools in the U.S?”, the CDD is asking, “Which schools did reopen, and what made them successful?” COVID Data Dispatch: https://coviddatadispatch.com/
September 1, 2021: Data & Successful School Reopenings: A Virtual Conversation with Besty Ladyzhets
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Dr. John C. Pollock, professor of health and human rights communication at The College of New Jersey, talks with SWINY co-chair about how social media is being used in countries other the United States to inform people about COVID-19.
August 19, 2021: Social Medial & COVID-19: A VIrtual Conversation with Dr. John C. Pollock
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Dr. John P. Moore, professor of microbiology and immunology at Weill Cornell Medicine, talks with SWINY co-chair David Levine about the Delta variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and whether we will need vaccine booster shots for this variant as well as for waning immunity since the initial vaccinations, whether mask mandates will be needed, and more.
August 10, 2021: COVID-19 Delta Variant & Boosters: A VIrtual Conversation with Dr. John Moore
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Jerome H. Barkow, emeritus professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Dalhousie University, Canada, and a director of the board of Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence (METI) International, which conducts scientific research and educational programs in METI and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), talks with SWINY co-chair David Levine about the Pentagon’s report to Congress on UFOs. He also compares unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) to spirit possession in West Africa as a way of introducing the notion that our perceptions and interpretations are culturally framed: once our own framing was supernatural but in a world of science some of us use the frame of extraterrestrials.
August 4: Are Aliens Here? A Virtual Conversation with Anthropologist Jerome H. Barkow
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Tuberculosis (TB), a bacterial infection that mainly infects the lungs, is believed to have caused more deaths than famines and wars combined. Although it is often seen as an ailment of the past, a total of 1.4 million people died from TB in 2019. Worldwide, TB is one of the top 10 causes of death and the leading cause from a single infectious agent (above HIV/AIDS). Thierry Bernard, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of QIAGEN, and Davide Manissero, MD, the company's Chief Medical Officer, Infection & Immune Diagnostics, talk with SWINY co-chair David Levine about the challenges of detecting and treating tuberculosis.
July 13, 2021: The Fight against Tuberculosis: The Forgotten Disease
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Investigative journalist Katherine Eban talks with SWINY co-chair David Levine about her latest article in Vanity Fair, “The Lab-Leak Theory, Inside the Fight to Unlock COVID-19’s Origins.” In her own investigation into the lab leak theory and whether it’s credible, Katherine spent months investigating the story, conducting dozens of interviews and reviewing hundreds of pages of U.S. government documents, including internal memos, meeting minutes and emails. The Lab-Leak Theory, Inside the Fight to Unlock COVID-19’s Origins: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-lab-leak-theory-inside-the-fight-to-uncover-covid-19s-origins
July 8, 2021: Did SARS-CoV-2 Leak from a Lab? A Virtual Conversation with Katherine Eban
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Marshall Allen, a reporter for ProPublica who investigates why we pay so much for health care in the United States and get so little in return, talks to SWINY co-chair David Levine about his new book, Never Pay The Fist Bill And Other Ways to Fight the Healthcare System and Win (published June 22 by Penguin Random House) and how consumers can get the affordable healthcare they need.
June 28, 2021: Never Pay the First Bill: A Virtual Conversation with Marshall Allen of Propublica
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