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A Conversation with Siddhartha Mukherjee (Episode #214)
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August 13, 2020
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45:53Now PlayingIn this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Siddhartha Mukherjee about our ongoing failure to adequately respond to the Covid-19 pandemic.
They discuss:
the significance of asymptomatic spread
the lack of Chinese cooperation
the failures of testing
travel restrictions
the missteps of the FDA and the CDC
controversy around masks
the lack of coordination among the states
conspiracy thinking about mortality statistics
the political contamination of public health information
electronic medical records
preparing for the next pandemic
the immunology of Covid-19
the longterm consequences of the disease
concerns about a vaccine
the coming prospect of school openings, and other topics.
Siddhartha Mukherjee is a cancer physician and researcher. He is an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University and a staff cancer physician at the CU/NYU Presbyterian Hospital. A former Rhodes scholar, he graduated from Stanford University, University of Oxford (where he received a PhD studying cancer-causing viruses) and from Harvard Medical School. His laboratory focuses on discovering new cancer drugs using innovative biological methods. He has published articles and commentary in such journals as Nature, New England Journal of Medicine, Neuron and the Journal of Clinical Investigation and in publications such as the New York Times, The New Yorker, and the New Republic. His work was nominated for Best American Science Writing, 2000. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his book The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer. His most recent book is The Gene: An Intimate History.
Twitter: @DrSidMukherjee
Released: August 13, 2020
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