All Sides with Amy Juravich

This episode originally aired on Oct. 26, 2020. The human nose is a powerful tool that provides crucial information about the sea of scents that surround us. Our sense of smell has taken on new importance during the pandemic, with temporary loss of olfactory sense being a common symptom of COVID-19.

This episode originally aired on July 14, 2020. The history of medical experimentation and the Black community is fraught with exploitation and abuse. But with the COVID-19 virus infecting and killing Black patients at disproportionately high rates, many experts in the medical field are calling for their inclusion in the first vaccine trials.

President-elect Joe Biden has started assembling his administration and mulling key Cabinet positions. The Trump administration has pressed on like it won the election. The president has refused to concede or cooperate with the transfer of power and continues to challenge the election results.

This episode originally aired on May 19, 2020. From the plague to the present day coronavirus pandemic, disease outbreaks have shaped everything in society from politics to personal relationships. Yale medical historian Frank Snowden explores this theme in his recent book, Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present.

This episode originally aired on Oct. 22, 2020. This October offers up some spectacular naked-eye views of our brightest planetary neighbors, such as Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn. But the star of the show is Mars, which swoops in for its closest approach to Earth until 2035.

This episode originally aired on Oct. 27, 2020. The Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center at The Ohio State University has embarked on a fundraising campaign to preserve its collection of ice core samples for future generations of scientists. Like rings of a tree, the frozen cylinders provide a climatological record stretching back hundreds of thousands of years.

A number of states have been using mobile phone apps to track the spread of COVID 19. But the results have been uneven. The lack of a national approach has left a hodge-podge system that varies from state to state.

Drugmaker Pfizer announced Monday an experimental coronavirus vaccine shown to be more than 90% effective in early tests. The news came as the U.S passed a grim milestone, recording more than 10 million cases of COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic.

President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris plan to use the transition period to get started on priorities like getting the pandemic under control. But President Trump isn’t making it easy for the new administration. He continues to challenge the legitimacy of the election – on Twitter and in the courts.

President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris celebrated their historic win Saturday night in Wilmington, Delaware, as President Trump ramped up his legal defense and refused to concede. Ohio cemented its status as a Republican stronghold, again delivering an eight-point margin for the president, and flipping more counties red in the process.