Discussed in this episode: White House to invest $5 billion in next-generation COVID vaccines. Here’s why we need new ones: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2023/04/10/project-next-generation-coronavirus-vaccines-biden-administration/11636925002/ COVID caused brain damage in 2 infants infected during pregnancy: https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/covid-caused-brain-damage-2-infants-infected-during-pregnancy-us-study-2023-04-06/ Podcast music credit:  Now Son by Podington Bear, licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License.

UpFront

Massive Classified Document Dump re: Ukraine; FDA considering a new round of COVID boosters

00:08 Classified US documents re: Russia’s war in Ukraine leaked John Feffer is Director of Foreign Policy in Focus 00:33 FDA considers authorizing a new round of COVID boosters Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health **Our Corona Calls segment with Doctor John Swartzberg is now … Continued


In this episode, we focus on our neighbors without secure housing as covid-oriented eviction protections begin to dissolve. Our guest is Leah Simon-Weisberg, Legal Director of The Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) Action. ACCE is a grassroots, member-led, statewide community organization working with more than 15,000 members across California. Check out the ACCE … Continued

Law & Disorder

Covid-Oriented Eviction Protections Dissolve; Plus – How the Latest Storms are Impacting our Unhoused Neighbors

On today’s show, we focus on our neighbors without secure housing as covid-oriented eviction protections begin to dissolve. Our first guest is Leah Simon-Weisberg, Legal Director of The Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) Action. ACCE is a grassroots, member-led, statewide community organization working with more than 15,000 members across California. Then, we take … Continued


Discussed in this episode: Gao, Fei, et al. “Robust T Cell Responses to Pfizer/BioNTech Vaccine Compared to Infection and Evidence of Attenuated Peripheral CD8+ T Cell Responses Due to Covid-19.” Immunity, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.immuni.2023.03.005 Podcast music credit:  Now Son by Podington Bear, licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License.