13th September 2023, 26 minutes. Guest: Apoorva Mandavilli, global health reporter for the New York Times
A New Covid Shot for a New Covid Era
“as cases rise, and as so many people are not taking these precautions”, “it’s pretty hard to be a cautious person right now”
“so few other people are doing these things, and so, you know, there’s a lot of judgement” “more people with cancer died during Omicron, when the cases were mild, than during the previous winter’s surge, partly because so many fewer people around them were taking precautions, and so the risks to them were higher” “it’s also lonelier for them, because everyone around them is doing something entirely different”
... thinking allowed ... 