COVID-19 Chapter 13: Vaccines, Take 2

Social media ads for egg freezing. A craigslist-like site for breast milk. Fertility fairs featuring IVF clinics alongside shamanic nutritionists. Surrogacy contracts offering a discount for multiple embryos. The rapidly-growing global fertility industry promises hope, fulfillmen ...  Show more

In keeping with last week’s theme of “bodily excretions that are kinda gross that you don’t really think about but are actually really important”, we’re devoting this episode to earwax, aka cerumen. In one hour, we somehow manage to weave together stories of earwax impaction, mis ...  Show more

There’s a ton of hoopla over these new coronavirus vaccines. But given that they’ve been produced at warp speed — can we trust them? We also find out what’s going on with “long haulers.” How common is it to be sick for months from Covid-19? Plus, fresh new science about why some ...  Show more

We are back again with the fourth (and final) episode in our series on debunking vaccine myths. In this week's episode, we focus specifically on the two COVID-19 vaccines (from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna). We kick things off with a discussion of the vaccine development timeline ...  Show more

In this episode Dr Matt & Dr Mike discuss everything vaccines! Start - 0:07:37 : What is immunity?0:07:37 - 0:16:24 : The 4 Types of Immunity0:16:24 - 0:39:42 : History of Vaccines0:39:42 - 0:49:00 : Herd Immunity0:49:00 - 1:02:05 : Types of Vaccines1:02:05 - 1:08:40 : Vaccine My ...  Show more

Can people who are vaccinated still carry and transmit the coronavirus to other people? How effective are the vaccines against coronavirus variants? And what's the deal with side effects? In this episode, an excerpt of Maddie's appearance on another NPR podcast, It's Been a Minut ...  Show more