From Italian carnival to Indian curfew
Venkat Srinivasan is my brother, and chief operating officer at Trimaster Metrology in Pune, India. We speak on the day of a nationwide curfew that was being tested in India, where he reflects on the ...
23 Maalis 20204min
Am I infected? How can we know?
We hear from Chitra Pattabiraman, a viral epidemiologist and research fellow at NIMHANS in Bangalore, India. She is actively involved in the efforts to combat the emerging outbreak in this country of ...
22 Maalis 202012min
Distance learning
In this episode, I speak with Iulia Heybrock, a high school teacher in Malmö with a PhD in linguistics (speaking no less than 7 languages!). We discuss the situation in Italy, where she has lived many...
22 Maalis 202023min
A child's take
Aron is my 4 year old. We talk about what it's been like these last few days in self-quarantine at home.
21 Maalis 20204min
Reasons for optimism?
Holger Wendt is my father in law. An unusually optimistic person, he shares some wisdom from an Italian grandma and points out some silver linings in the current crisis.
21 Maalis 20208min
Connections in quarantined Spain
I speak with Jesh Pradesh, a theater student and dance enthusiast from India, currently attending the Laboratorio theatre school in Barcelona. He speaks from self quarantine in Spain, where the outbre...
21 Maalis 202013min
From denial to action
In this conversation, I speak with Krithika Rajaram, a postdoctoral fellow studying malaria at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. We talk about COVID 19 ...
21 Maalis 20209min
Intro to COVID Pod
I'm Velocity, a microbiologist, following the COVID 19 story from self-quarantine in my home, in Malmö, Sweden. Let's get started!
20 Maalis 202047s
