Death Panel

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Beatrice speaks with Dr. Steven Thrasher about his recent piece for the Guardian "The Biden administration has failed its Covid test," what we can and can't learn about covid mitigation from the HIV/AIDS crisis, and his forthcoming book "The Viral Underclass."

You can pre-order Dr. Thrasher's book here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250796639

Also! Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book, Health Communism, out October 18th from Verso Books. Pre-order Health Communism here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/712391/health-communism-by-beatrice-adler-bolton-and-artie-vierkant/

Runtime 1:08:16, 24 January 2022

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Epidemiologist Abby Cartus returns for a wide ranging conversation on the current state of the school closing/reopening debate and the ongoing vilification of teachers unions and student walkouts.

Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book! Pre-order HEALTH COMMUNISM here:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/712391/health-communism-by-beatrice-adler-bolton-and-artie-vierkant/

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We discuss the administration's resigned stance that "virtually everybody is going to wind up getting exposed and likely infected" with covid-19 and what it really means to "learn to live with the virus," then take a look at the Supreme Court's decision this week to strike down the Biden employer vaccine mandate.

Runtime 1:03:11, 17 January 2022

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We're joined by Astra Taylor and Marshall Steinbaum for a conversation on why ending student debt is so pressing, the Biden administration's failure to fulfill its promises on student debt, and why we need a broader debt jubilee.

Astra Taylor is cofounder of the Debt Collective, a filmmaker, and the author of The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age and Democracy May Not Exist, but We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone (Metropolitan Books).

Marshall Steinbaum is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Utah and a Senior Fellow in Higher Education Finance at Jain Family Institute.

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We turn back the clock to the beginning of the pandemic to look at how our current pandemic response stacks up against even the lowest of bars: the proposals released by conservative think tanks like the American Enterprise Institute in early 2020. But first, we weigh in on CDC director Rochelle Walensky's "encouraging news" from last week.

Runtime 1:10:50, 10 January 2022

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We discuss two newly pervasive lines on the pandemic. First, that case numbers are an increasingly unimportant metric, and that what we should be looking to hospitalization numbers instead. Second, that on top of that, we need to find out how many people are "hospitalized for" covid, compared with those who are simply "hospitalized with" covid.

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We discuss the CDC's decision to shorten its covid isolation guidelines, their questionable reasoning for doing so, and how the scandal has played out in the last week.

Runtime 1:08:45, 3 January 2022

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Frank Pasquale joins us to discuss the rise of cost-benefit analysis as an influential force in American policy, the many problems with it, and what should be done about it. We also discuss his introduction to the Law and Political Economy Project's symposium on cost benefit analysis.

Frank Pasquale (@FrankPasquale) is a Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, and author of New Laws of Robotics (2020) and The Black Box Society (2015). Read the LPE symposium here: lpeproject.org/symposia/cost-benefit-analysis/

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Beatrice speaks with Loretta Torrago about the choices being forced on medically vulnerable children and their caregivers, and how the experiences of ill and disabled children have been largely erased during the pandemic.

PSA: This week's public episode (12/30) we're unlocking our interview with Frank Pasquale so the Panel can catch up with themselves. We're back for an episode with the full Panel next Monday (1/3)

Runtime 1:10:04, 27 December 2021

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We review the year in the U.S. covid response, and the profound miscalculations on the part of the government and the media that have played a direct role in keeping this crisis ongoing.

Episode transcript: https://blindarchive.substack.com/p/death-panel-podcast-covid-year-2

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