Discussed in this episode: Data aggregated by the CDC shows an increase in COVID hospitalizations, in positive test rates among people seeking emergency care, and in SARS-COV2 levels in wastewater samples. You can look up COVID levels in California wastewater on a system-by-system basis here Podcast music credit: Now Son by Podington Bear, licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International … Continued
Lisa See, in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky, discussing her latsst novel, “Lady Tan’s Circle of Women.” Lisa See is the best selling author of “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan,” “Peony in Love” and most recently, ” The Island of Sea Women.”
We begin with the bizarre contentious hearing today before Jim Jordan’s clown show known as the House Subcommittee on the Weaponization of Government at which the Republican’s star witness Robert Kennedy junior, who is running for the presidency as a Democrat, denied being an anti-vaxxer and making anti-semitic remarks even though a video clip of … Continued
Discussed in this episode: The morning newsletter at the New York Times, citing excess mortality data, suggests the pandemic is “over” The WHO’s updates show COVID deaths are down almost everywhere right now — including the southern hemisphere, which is in the middle of winter. That suggests COVID’s not settling into an endemic pattern of … Continued
Two from Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archives: Stuart Klawans, author of “Crooked But Never Common: The Films of Preston Sturges” discusses the great American screenwriter/director’s career. Kate MacKay, curator of a Luis Bunuel retrospective, talks about the Spanish filmmaker’s work and career. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
Filling in for Brian Edwards-Tiekert, Philip Maldari hosts Covid Calls this week, featuring Dr. John Swartzberg, Clinical Professor Emeritus of Infectious Diseases at UC Berkeley. Discussed in this episode: Growth of the anti-vaccination movement and its weaponization in US politics The spread of Measles in the United States The rules and timelines for receiving a … Continued
David Grann discusses his two most recent books, “The Wager,” and “Killers of the Flower Moon”, recorded June, 2023. Yi-Yun Li talks about her first novel, “The Vagrants” in an interview recorded in 2009. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
We begin with a series of unpopular rulings by the Supreme Court that ended affirmative action in college admissions, stopped President Biden from cancelling student debt and sanctified bigotry by a lying web designer who was not even in business when she said a gay couple wanted her to work for them, claiming it was … Continued
We begin with a series of unpopular rulings by the Supreme Court that ended affirmative action in college admissions, stopped President Biden from cancelling student debt and sanctified bigotry by a lying web designer who was not even in business when she said a gay couple wanted her to work for them, claiming it was … Continued
We begin with an alarming report from the Inspector General of the Small Business Administration that finds over $200 billion from the PPP and Covid relief funds was stolen and went to fraudsters. It is likely that up to 17% of Covid relief funds ended up with scammers with additional losses of $28 billion from … Continued
