Death Panel

Bea speaks with Marquisele Mercedes and Monica Kriete about how medicalized antifatness operates in health policy and public health, and discuss a fat liberationist critique of the controversial new guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics.

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Marquisele (Mikey) Mercedes is a writer, creator, and doctoral student from the Bronx, New York. As a Presidential Fellow at the Brown University School of Public Health, she works at the intersection of critical public health studies, fat studies, and scholarship on race/ism, examining how racism, anti-Blackness, and fatphobia have shaped health care, research, and public health. Mikey is also the co-host of the podcast, Unsolicited: Fatties Talk Back. 

Mikey links:

https://pipewrenchmag.com/dismantling-medical-fatphobia/

https://www.marquiselemercedes.com/about

https://linktr.ee/unsolicitedftb

Monica Kriete is a public health communicator and strategist, who studies anti-fatness in health care and public health, and advocates for addressing the structural determinants of health through widespread social change. She provides training and technical assistance to help clinicians, policy makers and researchers understand the flaws of weight-centric health systems and imagine fat-positive health care and health policy.

Monica links:

https://pipewrenchmag.com/public-health-is-failing-fat-people/

https://www.fattymph.com/

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Bea, Artie, and Abby reflect on Jeff Zients’s role as coronavirus response coordinator in 2021 and the beginning of 2022, and why his appointment as Biden’s next chief of staff is such a bad idea.

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Bea, Artie, and Abby discuss what it will mean for the Biden administration to end the official public health emergency declaration, alongside comments by Ashish Jha that attempt to deflect blame on hospital capacity. Then we take a look at Leana Wen's bold assertion this week that we are "overcounting" covid deaths.

Read Bea and Artie's piece in Teen Vogue, "Why The White House Shouldn't Privatize COVID Vaccines," here: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/covid-vaccines-death-panel-oped

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Bea speaks with Liat Ben-Moshe about lessons we can draw from linking disability justice with abolition, the threat posed by moves like California's CARE courts and Eric Adams's involuntary hospitalization policies, and revisit her 2020 book Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition.

Find Liat's book here: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/decarcerating-disability

Episode Transcript: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/disability-and-abolition-w-liat-ben-moshe

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Bea speaks with Dan Berger about his new book Stayed On Freedom, the importance of resisting overly streamlined histories of political movements, and the ongoingness and intergenerational nature of political struggle.

Dan's book, Stayed On Freedom: The Long History of Black Power through One Family’s Journey, is out this week from Basic Books: https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/dan-berger/stayed-on-freedom/9781541675360/

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XBB.1.5, aka “Kraken,” may be the latest variant causing a spike in cases, but it isn’t the only one driving spread, nor the only one to watch out for. Bea speaks with evolutionary biologist T Ryan Gregory about how to make sense of the increasingly large pool of new covid variants, what we can do to stop them, and why he and his colleagues suggested the name “Kraken” in the first place.

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Bea, Artie, and Abby discuss what it will mean for the Biden administration to end the official public health emergency declaration, alongside comments by Ashish Jha that attempt to deflect blame on hospital capacity. Then we take a look at Leana Wen's bold assertion this week that we are "overcounting" covid deaths.

Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

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Bea, Jules, and Abby discuss the complicated history of DIY healthcare and DIY transition as a story of class struggle, and how this history can complicate how we talk about physician expertise, abortion, single payer, and more.

Read Jules piece on this in the Baffler, "Doctors Who?" here: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/doctors-who-gill-peterson

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Bea, Artie, and Phil discuss how China's zero-covid policy has been used as a political foil over the course of the pandemic and how, after years of dismissal, the moment China abandoned it those very same people began pointing to transmission in China as the impending source of a deadly new variant.

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We discuss a recent piece in the New Yorker called "The Case for Masking Forever" which presents itself as a profile of the group The People's CDC but instead, we argue, is a veritable hit piece on the idea of covid advocacy itself.

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