The Nation: It’s Time to Tell a New Story About the Coronavirus
The way we talk about contagion matters. It shapes how societies respond–and whether many of us will survive. https://www.thenation.com/article/society/pandemic-definition-covid/
The way we talk about contagion matters. It shapes how societies respond–and whether many of us will survive. https://www.thenation.com/article/society/pandemic-definition-covid/
READ: My story on Covid-19 in animals in the New York Times magazine WATCH: A clip of me talking pandemics on HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver WATCH: My interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now!, “It’s time to tell a new story about coronavirus–our lives depend on it.” LISTEN: My interview on the Nicole Sandler Show, “Life and Covid Times with Sonia Shah“ LISTEN: My interview on “Letters and Politics” on KPFA, “The history of development and contagious disease“ WATCH: My interview on Rising Up with Sonali, “Toward a new understanding of disease and infections” on KPFK READ: My cover story in The Nation, “It’s time to tell a new story about coronavirus–our lives depend on it.” WATCH: My interview with Vox, featured in “How humans are making pandemics more likely“ WATCH: My conversation about pandemics, past and present, on CNN with Fareed Zakaria WATCH: My Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Webinar on Migrations and Contagions WATCH: My address to the German Green Party Council on environmental disruption and pandemics (starts at 3:14) READ: My article, “Mass Consumption Is What Ails Us,” Foreign Affairs LISTEN: My interview with Marco Werman on PRI’s The World, “What does it mean when people say we’re due for a pandemic?” WATCH: My TED Connects talk on how to make pandemics like COVID-19 optional, not inevitable, April 1, 2020 WATCH: My interview with Senator Bernie Sanders on his coronavirus roundtable livestream, March 30, 2020 WATCH: My conversation with international activists on Transnational Institute’s webinar, “Building an Internationalist Response to COVID19“ READ: My Q&A with Sigal Samuel, “Our environmental practices make pandemics like the coronavirus more likely,” Vox, March 31, 2020 READ: My article, “How Trump Is Going to Get Away with a Pandemic,” The Nation, March 31, 2020 LISTEN: My interview for “When We Talk About Animals” podcast, on how animal microbes become human pandemics WATCH: My interview with Marc Steiner, “Covid-19, Ebola, and SARS were all unleashed by humans,” Real News Network WATCH: My interview, “Pandemics are entirely preventable,” on NBC LX LISTEN: My interview, “When viruses become pandemics,” on the Le Monde Diplomatique podcast READ: My contribution to “Coronavirus Will Change the World Permanently. Here’s How,” POLITICO magazine WATCH: My interview, “How the climate crisis is making the spread of infectious diseases like coronavirus more common,” Democracy Now! READ: My story, “Think exotic animals are to blame for the coronavirus? Think again.” From The Nation magazine. Reprinted by Le Monde Diplomatique in French, Spanish, and Portuguese. READ: My article, “The pandemic of xenophobia and scapegoating,” in TIME magazine READ: My Q&A on the origins of pandemics with the Times of India LISTEN: my interview on the problem of scapegoating during epidemics with WNYC’s “The Takeaway“ LISTEN: my interview on the What if? podcast (starts at 22:06) READ: my comments on where novel pathogens come from, on Global Health Now’s “Coronavirus Expert Reality Check“ READ: The Coronavirus in Context: a Q&A with Sonia Shah, author of PANDEMIC, from Direct Relief
Even as public health experts race to contain the novel coronavirus outbreak, a potentially more fearsome and shadowy pandemic—aimed at uninfected people unjustly fingered as potential carriers—grows. https://time.com/5776279/pandemic-xenophobia-scapegoating/
With thousands of species on the move as the climate changes, a growing number of scientists say that the dichotomy between native and alien species has become an outdated concept and that efforts must be made to help migrating species adapt to their new habitats. https://e360.yale.edu/features/native-species-or-invasive-the-distinction-blurs-as-the-world-warms
National Geographic’s part-docu part-sci fi TV series “MARS” featured a contagion on a Martian colony in its fourth episode of season two–and interviews with a few experts on outbreaks, including Pardis Sabeti, Antonia Juhasz, Elon Musk, Neil Degrasse-Tyson, and me. Here’s a link to the show and a screen grab. Enjoy!
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/do-the-olympics-actually-make-the-world-less-healthy/
It’s really not your fault you’re attracted to that terrible person. How your microbes influence your love life
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/greece/2016-07-28/refugees-and-greeces-health-crisis
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/07/29/how-foreclosed-homes-and-used-tires-can-affect-public-health-in-the-age-of-zika/
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/from-zika-to-antibiotic-resistant-superbugs-welcome-to-the-new-age-of-contagions/