Death Panel

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We speak with Nate Holdren about his book Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era, the history of worker's compensation reforms, and the tensions surrounding disablement and the working class.

Nate Holdren (@n_hold) is Assistant Professor of Law, Politics, & Society at Drake University.

Runtime 1:34:40, 20 December 2021

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Bea speaks with Abby Cartus about why mortality for pregnant people is so high in the U.S., how our system of private health insurance companies and hospitals contributes to the problem, and why the field of public health as a whole needs to be remade.

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We take a close look at the U.S. covid response across 2021 and the government's many, tragic unforced errors that explain why things are as bad as they are right now.

Runtime 1:49:23, 13 December 2021

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We discuss the administration's truly awful new plan on rapid covid testing, Jen Psaki's viral clip on the subject, and the latest updates on the new Omicron variant.

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Abby Cartus joins us for a close read of the oral arguments in the latest Supreme Court challenge to abortion rights in the U.S., Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization.

Runtime 1:23:34, 6 December 2021

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Abby Cartus stops by for a long discussion on the implications of SB 8, the Texas anti-abortion bill, two months into enactment. We dig into the oral arguments heard last week at the Supreme Court and one study that shows the law already reduced abortions by 49.8%, and wonder just what, exactly, it would take to get anyone to do anything about it.

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Justin Feldman joins us to discuss how the narrative on covid has largely dropped enduring racial and economic disparities in deaths, and a certain milestone we've probably crossed due to underreporting. We also discuss his recent study in JAMA showing that if everyone had died at the same rate as college-educated white people in the first year of the pandemic 71% fewer people of color would have died.

Justin Feldman is an epidemiologist of social inequality and state violence and a Health & Human Rights Fellow at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard. You can follow him on Twitter @jfeldman_epi

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Referenced in this episode:

Justin's study, "Variation in COVID-19 Mortality in the US by Race and Ethnicity and Educational Attainment" in JAMA:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2786466

Justin's piece for Slate, "All the Ways That “1 in 5,000 per Day” Breakthrough Infection Stat Is Nonsense":

https://slate.com/technology/2021/09/breakthrough-infections-one-in-five-thousand-nonsense.html

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We delve into what is known, and what is not known, about the new Omicron variant of covid-19, including some of the more popular misconceptions being frequently repeated about it, and what's gone wrong with the response so far.

Runtime 1:09:37, 29 November 2021

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Beatrice speaks with Da'Shaun L. Harrison about their book Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness and the joined histories of eugenics and racial capitalism.

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We discuss what was cut—and what remains—in the Democrats' big social spending bill, and the high profile role Panel villain the CBO played in the debate surrounding it in recent weeks. Then, we look at the CDC's new approval of booster shots for all adults and discuss what impact it might have on cases going into the winter.

Runtime 1:26:27, 23 November 2021

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