Death Panel

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We discuss the expiration of the eviction moratorium and what the leaked internal CDC presentation tells us about the delta variant and the next few months of the pandemic.

Runtime 1:13:21, 2 August 2021

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We take a close look at where we are in the pandemic going into fall, between the CDC's partial guidance rollback this week, escalating discourse over "vaccine mandates" and "the problem of the unvaccinated," and an open question: will the Biden administration do anything at all?

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We mark the occasion of Jeff Bezos' spaceflight with a look at the last few decades of increasingly pro-capitalist space policies that made it possible, and the lobbying efforts of the so called "NewSpace" movement that won them.

Runtime 1:19:32, 26 July 2021

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We discuss widely cited and highly suspect assertions from Johns Hopkins surgeon Marty Makary that the only children vulnerable to covid-19 are those with "pre-existing conditions," and examine his history of writing anti-Medicare for All airport books. But first, we discuss Jeff Bezos' sort-of-spaceflight.

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We discuss the Biden administration's new line that we have a "pandemic of the unvaccinated" fueled by "the disinformation dozen," and how to understand the rise in covid cases. Then we take a closer look at New York City's attempt to rapidly expel unhoused people from midtown hotels.

Runtime 1:02:06, 19 July 2021

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We discuss the Biden administration's suggestion that cities use covid relief money to fund more police, a truly galaxy brain proposal in Democrats' reconciliation bill for how to expand Medicaid, and why so many people are asserting adding vision and dental coverage to Medicare is a step towards single payer.

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We discuss the CDC's latest guidance change for fall school reopening and the implications of Pfizer's lawsuit to get around a long-established drug pricing norm. But first, we break out the calipers to look at one research team's quest to determine whether certain genetic traits made some people more susceptible to covid than others.

Runtime 1:06:19, 12 July 2021

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We discuss the controversy surrounding the Britney Spears conservatorship as part of the long history of carceral responses to mental health, and what so much of the public debate around Britney has missed.

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We take advantage of the holiday weekend to survey the extremely messy history that led to the passage of original Medicare, the role private insurers and other industry groups played in its creation, and some of its unintended consequences we live with to this day.

Runtime 1:16:49, 5 July 2021

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We're joined by Charlie Markbreiter to pour one out for Lauren Berlant and reflect on what their work meant to each of us.

But first (until 31:45), we discuss newly released draft OSHA guidelines suggesting the Biden administration considered much stronger worker protections against COVID—until they were aggressively lobbied by industry groups to limit their scope.

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