Going the Distance: COVID-19 and Mental Health
Abdul dissects the unequal burden of COVID-19 by race, chats with Dr. Sarah Jukaku, a psychiatrist, who also happens to be his wife, about what she’s hearing from her patients. Later he talks with Pro...
10 Apr 202027min
The economy after COVID-19
Abdul talks to a local bookstore owner about going online after COVID and dissects how this will influence the economy. And Prof. Tara Sinclair, a macroeconomist joins us to talk about the economic fo...
7 Apr 202024min
Open for Business: Toilet Paper and Disaster Capitalism
Abdul dissects how hospitals are struggling under the surge of COVID patients, while writer Naomi Klein joins us to talk about the “shock doctrine” of disaster capitalism. We'll find out what disaster...
3 Apr 202022min
Emergency Room: A dispatch from the Front Lines
As doctors, nurses, and hospital staff do battle on the front lines, how is the growing pandemic affecting these people and how are they coping? Abdul will talk with Dr. Aakash Shah, an emergency room...
31 Mar 202024min
Life Support: Congress and COVID (with Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal)
This week the Senate passed a historic, $2 trillion stimulus bill aimed at easing the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The legislation, which is expected to pass the House of Representatives on Fri...
27 Mar 202024min
The Tweetment: Why Science Matters Now
Host Abdul El-Sayed dissects the claim of a possible cure for COVID-19, and then we talk to Dr. Alison Galvani, an epidemiologist and infectious diseases modeler at Yale, about how long the current ou...
24 Mar 202024min
Plandemic: How the World is Treating Coronavirus
Abdul dissects the news of a vaccine, the concept of “flattening the curve,” and the notion of herd immunity. Ben Rhodes, former Deputy National Security Advisor, joins to dissect the Global Pandemic ...
20 Mar 202025min
A Public/Private Health Emergency
Abdul dissects President Trump’s State of Emergency Declaration and the true number of cases in America. And we explore how the American public health system’s organized (and what went wrong) with Jon...
17 Mar 202029min
