Discussed in this episode:

Jay Bhattacharya, who heads the National Institutes of Health for the Trump administration, kept the CDC from publishing data showing getting an updated COVID shot drastically reduced the need for emergency care and hospitalization.

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A weekly update on new research and developments concerning COVID-19 (and occasionally other infectious diseases that hit the news).

We take questions via call-in during the live broadcast, Mondays at 7:33am Pacific, streaming via kpfa.org. Podcasts with show notes go up later the same day. Between live shows, we take questions via email at upfront@kpfa.org .

Our guest most weeks is Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health. Our question-wrangler most weeks is Brian Edwards-Tiekert, host of KPFA’s morning public affairs program, UpFront. 

Music: Now Son by Podington Bear, licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License.