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We discuss a recent piece in the New Yorker called "The Case for Masking Forever" which presents itself as a profile of the group The People's CDC but instead, we argue, is a veritable hit piece on th

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In this two-part series, we speak to a few people engaged in organizing and political education projects about their experiences trying to incorporate covid protections into their existing organizing

Bea speaks with Ellie Murray about why mask mandates work to reduce the impact of the pandemic, why simply "recommending" masking doesn't, and how the results of a study she co-authored directly contr

We speak with epidemiologist Dr. Theresa Chapple about how seemingly everyone became convinced that you can't catch covid outdoors, common misconceptions about the pandemic driven by an overwhelming f

Beatrice, Artie and Abby discuss this week’s news that the CDC is planning to drop its covid isolation guidelines, and how the proposed change is emblematic of the Biden administration’s long running

We discuss the details of the CDC's new redefinition of its covid risk guidelines, and why they don't provide any good justification to drop masking. As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com

Beatrice speaks with Alice Wong about Alice's campaign to reinstate a mask mandate at UCSF, a hospital system home to a number of physicians who have played an outsized, deleterious, role in advocatin

Bea speaks with Jane Thomason of National Nurses United (NNU) about troubling new guidance changes the CDC is considering that would further weaken infection control in healthcare settings, and NNU's

Abby Cartus joins us to discuss the Biden administration's two recently released plans on long covid, and the total inadequacy of the US social safety net to catch the many people newly disabled by th

Jules Gill-Peterson and Charlie Markbreiter join us to discuss Emily Bazelon's recent controversial New York Times Magazine cover story "The Battle Over Gender Therapy," its harmful and historically i

Beatrice, Artie, and Abby discuss the way long covid is portrayed in the media and the mainstream press, and the frequently used tropes that focus on long covid as a question of economic productivity

Beatrice shares messages from Death Panel listeners in Gaza and speaks with Danya Qato about how the totalizing nature of the genocide of Palestine can't be captured in death and injury statistics alo

We look back at how such a basic intervention as masking during a pandemic became increasingly scrutinized, undermined, and ultimately stigmatized in mainstream discourse over the last three years. T

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Bea speaks with Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes about their new book Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care, released this week. Find Let This Radicalize You here: htt

We're taking the week of the 14th off for research and to gear up for what we've got planned for the show in the fall. In the meantime, if you appreciate this episode, or just want to support our work

Bea, Artie, and Abby discuss the end of mask mandates in healthcare settings, why masking in places like hospitals was a good idea even pre-pandemic, and the one US agency that could put the brakes on

We review the year in the U.S. covid response, and the profound miscalculations on the part of the government and the media that have played a direct role in keeping this crisis ongoing. Episode tran

XBB.1.5, aka “Kraken,” may be the latest variant causing a spike in cases, but it isn’t the only one driving spread, nor the only one to watch out for. Bea speaks with evolutionary biologist T Ryan Gr

Bea, Artie, and Phil discuss what it will mean for Medicaid redeterminations to resume April 1st, a process that is expected to see as many as 22 million people lose their health insurance. But first,

We discuss a new refrain that pushing for a return of pandemic mitigations is "moralizing" even as the BA.5 wave takes hold. But first, we check in on the Biden administration's inability to meet the

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Bea, Artie, and Abby discuss some of the impacts of the end of the public health emergency one month out, and share listener stories that directly contradict the prevailing narrative that the pandemic

This episode was originally a patron exclusive. If you enjoy this episode, consider becoming a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod. Beatrice and Jules speak with Jasbir Puar about biopolitics, co

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This episode was originally a patron exclusive. If you enjoy this episode, consider becoming a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod. Bea, Artie, and Abby discuss what it will mean for the Biden ad

Epidemiologist Justin Feldman joins us to talk through this week's sudden pivot by Democrats to drop state mask mandates. We discuss where this policy change came from and how these decisions appear t

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Bea speaks with Marquisele Mercedes and Monica Kriete about how medicalized antifatness operates in health policy and public health, and discuss a fat liberationist critique of the controversial new g

In Part 2 of this two-part series, we speak to a few people engaged in organizing and political education projects about their experiences trying to incorporate covid protections into their existing o

We discuss the abrupt end of the transportation mask mandate, what people really mean when they assert that "We Have the Tools," and Benjamin Mazer's awful new Atlantic piece, "It’s Just Scaring Peopl

Bea, Artie, Phil, and Abby discuss Joe Biden's recent statement that "the pandemic is over," what it means for the US pandemic response, and the many flawed assumptions that have led people to make si

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We discuss the Biden administration's increasingly ambivalent attitude toward the pandemic as the US reaches one million deaths, and revisit the CDC's data on breakthrough deaths to try to get a bette

Bea and Jules speak with Naomi Klein about left melancholy, coping with and working against years of disastrous pandemic response, and her new book Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World. Find Do

Bea, Artie, Phil and Abby discuss how the widely reported expense and unavailability of the new covid boosters is the disastrous (and predictable) consequence of the Biden administration’s move to kic

We discuss the continued fallout of last week's dropped state masking guidelines, the popular new assertion that "one-way masking works," David Leonhardt's 5-point guide to protecting the vulnerable,

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Abby Cartus joins us to discuss David Leonhardt's "Covid and Race," in which he made the bold (and inaccurate) claim in the New York Times that "covid’s racial gaps have narrowed and, more recently, e

Bea, Artie, Phil, and Abby break format to talk through a major drug denial that has put Bea's care in jeopardy, why private Medicare Part D plans are able to deny necessary care to people with rare d

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Bea and Jules speak with Lexi McMenamin about the avalanche of anti-trans laws introduced in state legislatures this year, the Biden administration's very inadequate plan for how to approach trans rig

We take a look back at the year's events and the major social and political developments that worked to normalize covid in 2022. Find the companion episode to this one, “How Liberals Killed Masking,”

Dan Berger joins us for a detailed overview of how the pandemic has demonstrated the need for carceral abolition, how little has been done in the last two years to protect incarcerated people, and why

Justin Feldman joins us to talk through the latest downgrade to the CDC's covid guidelines and Ashish Jha's statement this week that the Biden administration is aiming for covid vaccines and therapeut

We discuss the meaning and history of "the social determinants of health"—all of the social and political factors that impact individual and population health beyond what healthcare traditionally focu

With one week until the official end of the public health emergency, Bea, Artie, and Jules discuss the Biden administration's long-promised and newly unveiled plans to continue providing free covid va

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We discuss the one thing everyone can seemingly agree on: the US is in a new wave, and no one knows quite how big it really is. Then we revisit the CDC's "community level" metrics, and discuss new rep

This episode was originally a patron exclusive. If you enjoy this episode consider supporting the show at patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice speaks with Danya Qato about the political economy of heal

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This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on August 22nd 2022, and we are re-releasing it today alongside a new transcript of the conversation. (This is in addition to our regular s

Beatrice speaks with Dan Berger about how mass incarceration has driven the spread of the pandemic, how prisons and other carceral sites have used covid as an excuse to grow more punitive, and why we

This episode was originally a patron exclusive. If you enjoy this episode, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod. Bea, Artie, and Jules discuss Eric Adams' initiative to broadly expand inv

Epidemiologist Abby Cartus returns for a wide ranging conversation on the current state of the school closing/reopening debate and the ongoing vilification of teachers unions and student walkouts. Pr

Hello Death Panel listeners, friends, and comrades! The federal public health emergency (PHE) ended in the United States on May 11th, which began the transition of the COVID "tools" (e.g. testing,...

We discuss the nationwide popular uprising, the media's failure to make sense of it, and the political efficacy of riots. Then (1:22:10) Bea interviews K from Survived and Punished about their work a

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Bea, Artie, and Phil discuss how the Medicaid "Unwinding," which has already seen over 5 million and counting lose their social safety net health insurance, is still being treated as such an afterthou

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We speak with Nate Holdren about Friedrich Engels' concept of "social murder" and the social and political processes that have enabled the pandemic to be portrayed as if nothing more could be done. R

Beatrice, Artie and Jules discuss the recent push by state and local governments to criminalize masking in public space, in some cases introducing new legislation to make existing anti-mask laws more

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With the public health emergency declaration ending today, May 11th, we turn back the clock to early 2021, mere days into the Biden presidency, and the moment it became clear the US was going to "end

We discuss why so many cities and states are ignoring the CDC's community level system, the controversy over the return of LA's mask mandate, and Josh Barro's substack tirade against "team covid forev

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We answer the question on the tip of everyone's tongue: how, exactly, does the pandemic end? As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie

Beatrice speaks with Rasha Abdulhadi about the last six months in the escalation of genocidal violence against the people of Palestine, what has and hasn’t changed since the last time Rasha spoke with

Beatrice and Jules speak with Mariame Kaba and Melissa Gira Grant about the importance of understanding the library as a site of political contestation and a rare expression of the commons in contempo

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As we prepare to record "Covid Year Four," Beatrice, Artie, and Abby discuss what is left of national covid data following the end of the public health emergency, how what's left has become so thoroug

Bea and Jules mark the 33rd anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) with a discussion of just how limited the law is compared with how it's portrayed, how to understand the ADA as par

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Epidemiologist Abby Cartus joins us to discuss why nothing is being done about fall school reopenings and the increasing prevalence of pediatric covid hospitalizations. We also take the opportunity to

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Bea, Artie, and Phil speak with Nate Holdren about how to understand the pandemic response as a site of class struggle, latent imaginaries of the state, and the power dynamics at play in the Biden adm

Beatrice speaks with Vicky Osterweil about the events we’re encouraged to forget, repress, and reinterpret in order to abet genocide, carcerality, or abandonment to a pandemic, and the power of refusi

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