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  • PHMC - Measles on the Backburner
    Canada could lose its measles elimination status, which says a lot about the state of public health overall. Media coverage leaves much to be desired when it comes to informing the public about measles vaccines, airborne transmission, and social determinants of health, especially with a new school year beginning. Daniella & MJ chew over the hits, swings, and misses in a recent measles episode of CBC Frontburner ("Canada has a measles problem", May 16, 2025). ResourcesHow Mennonite women are building bridges between public health and community amid measles outbreak(As referenced in the episode, here [from 22:22] is Dr. Bonnie Henry's November 2024 presser on H5N1 saying she finds the word "pandemic" triggering in her role as a public health leader.)CREDITSPublic Health Media Club is a crossover public health show hosted by Daniella (of Public Health is Dead) and MJ (of Everything is Public Health). All audio editing by MJ.To PHID listeners: ~Thanks for listening to this late summer crossover! Public Health is Dead post-summer production will be ramping up again. The horrors persist but so do we~ This is an independent, listener-supported show. If you like what you hear, and you'd like to support production costs for more of Public Health is Dead, visit publichealthisdead.com!
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  • PHMC - Still Masking After All These Years
    This is Public Health Media Club—a chatty and critical exchange about public health in the media!Daniella (of "Public Health is Dead") & MJ (of "Everything is Public Health") do a crossover episode about COVID, people still masking, and "The Science"! First up, from the Atlantic: The Evermaskers (archived link). *This episode pairs nicely with the previous special episode on Public Health is Dead, "But My Therapist Said"*IMPORTANT: Let us know if you like this format! And if you want us to continue making crossover episodes like this. Of course, there's a lot to talk about since Everything is Public Health and Public Health is Dead. Follow MJ's show "Everything is Public Health" here.  This is an independent, listener-supported show. If you like what you hear, and you'd like to support production costs for more of Public Health is Dead, visit publichealthisdead.com!
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  • SPECIAL: "But My Therapist Said"—COVID-Informed Therapists Chat
    Ever heard anyone say they can't care about COVID anymore because it's bad for their mental health? Or their therapist said people still masking have "COVID anxiety"?Well, here are three mental health professionals who have a thing or two to say about that! Meet Pierre, Briana, and Ji-Youn, who share their perspectives on what the Western therapy world is often missing when it comes to COVID and collective care.Like we often say on the show, all systems of oppression are connected.NOTE: We recorded this conversation in early November 2024. This chat special is a bit of a departure from the regular narrative style episodes you’re used to on Public Health is Dead but you are in for some gems. It reaffirms choosing to care about each other by resisting COVID, ableism, and white supremacy. "We keep us safe" has to mean something!(00:00) Introduction(02:50) Meet Briana, Pierre, and Ji-Youn(06:00) Is "COVID anxiety" a real thing?(10:49) What does years of public health abandonment do to us collectively?(14:00) Collective care and what we owe each other(23:33) Relationship breakdowns(39:31) How to have COVID conversations/set your own boundaries(53:10) Messages to other therapists(59:58) SPEAK ON IT, PIERRE!! (if you listen to nothing else, listen to this!)Find Pierre at Queering Psychology, Briana at her website, and Ji-Youn at their website. CREDITSPublic Health is Dead is created, hosted, written and produced by Daniella BarretoOutro music for this episode by Alexandria Maillot N.B. It’s a bad idea for you to take medical advice from podcasts. Good thing this show does not offer medical advice! The point of Public Health is Dead is to share experiences and information that might help public health as a field and increase our collective knowledge. As always, if you have particular personal medical concerns of your own you should talk to your own medical providers. This is an independent, listener-supported show. If you like what you hear, and you'd like to support production costs for more of Public Health is Dead, visit publichealthisdead.com!
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  • How to Stop an Epidemic: When SARS Came to the ER
    In March 2003, one SARS patient showed up in a Vancouver emergency room and another went to a Toronto emergency room. But two very different sequences of events unfolded.Dr. Lyne Filiatrault was working in the Vancouver ER that day. Her team leapt into action and—with a little luck and a lot of preparation—prevented SARS from spreading at the hospital. A government agency immediately put in protections and built a firewall against SARS in BC, protecting staff, patients, and the public. Nobody died.In Toronto, however, SARS exploited a system unprepared for the unknown. It was the largest outbreak outside Asia. It shook the city and left healthcare workers and patients under-informed and under-protected. 44 people died. Many more contracted it as it was left to smoulder beneath shoddy protections.In the aftermath, the SARS Commission report detailed the far-reaching failures in Toronto and how great work from healthcare workers and science advisors staved off a far worse outcome. The report laid out instructions for how to avoid such a preventable public health tragedy in the future. Hear how Dr. Filiatrault and her team put the precautionary principle into practice against SARS in 2003, what public health can still learn from this story for the events of today, and what we need from good public health leaders heading into a future where more pandemics threaten us all.TRANSCRIPT HERE(04:26) Chapter 1: Vancouver - Dr. Filiatrault's story(18:34) Chapter 2: Toronto - A city unprepared(35:58) Chapter 3: What makes a good public health response?(50:01) Chapter 4: Safety at work(53:05) Chapter 5: What's in a good public health leader?*Correction: throughout this episode I refer to Scarborough Grace Hospital as Scarborough General Hospital, which is incorrect. Scarborough Grace Hospital is now called Birchmount Hospital and exists under the umbrella of the Scarborough Health Network, which also includes a Scarborough General Hospital.LINKS/RESOURCESWhat makes a good public health leader​SARS Commission Final ReportCREDITSPublic Health is Dead is created, hosted, produced, written and edited by Daniella Barreto.Music, sound design and mixing by Alexandria Maillot.Fact checking and production support from Anika S.Editing support from Kevin Ball, Anika S. and Lauren M.*As this episode mentions, a disproportionate number of healthcare workers who keep the system running in Canada are Filipino. The Filipino community in Vancouver is reeling from a violent attack at this year's Lapu Lapu festival. Much of the healthcare we have access to in Canada works because of the frontline labour of Filipino people, many who are women and immigrants. If you can, instead of chipping in to support this episode, please consider sending funds to the ​community-led Kapwa fund ​*to support people affected by this awful event.**\---N.B. It’s a bad idea for you to take medical advice from podcasts. Good thing this show does not offer medical advice! The point of Public Health is Dead is to share experiences and information that might help public health as a field and increase our collective knowledge. As always, if you have particular personal medical concerns of your own you should talk to your own medical providers about it because I am just a voice in your headphones. (Service providers might also benefit from the contents of this show.) This is an independent, listener-supported show. If you like what you hear, and you'd like to support production costs for more of Public Health is Dead, visit publichealthisdead.com!
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  • Something's in the Air (The Airborne Transmission Error)
    How a mixup about airborne transmission led to one of the biggest public health errors in history. 5 years since the COVID pandemic began, public health has yet to clearly address it. A lot of disease spread happens through the air we share. And most people don’t know.Over the last century, our growing understanding of pathogens and the ways they spread allowed public health to mitigate, eliminate, and even eradicate diseases in many parts of the world. We thought we knew it all. But pride comes before a fall. Public health has been missing a big part of how diseases like COVID spread and it's cost us a lot. Join your host, Daniella, to learn how a group of aerosol scientists teamed up with Dr. Katie Randall, a medical rhetorician and historian, and toppled the house of cards holding up the idea that sprayed droplets are the main route of respiratory disease transmission. Small aerosols that we constantly breathe out can be suspended in the air and carry pathogens that cause disease. This is airborne transmission. How did public health leaders dismiss airborne transmission for so long even though we've known about it for TB, measles, and SARS for decades? And, now that scientists understand much more about how diseases spread, how can public health adapt to protect us? Dr. Al Haddrell, an aerosol scientist, walks us through how aerosol works and how we can interrupt disease transmission with new knowledge. Something’s in the air... and it might be a paradigm shift.RESOURCESWIRED article by Megan Molteni: "How a 60-year-old screwup helped COVID kill" (archived version)Learn more about aerosol on Dr. Al Haddrell's YouTube channel (some ft. Transformers. IYKYK). I like this 5-minute video he made about why we can see cigarette smoke but not exhaled aerosol.Ambient carbon dioxide concentration correlates with SARS-CoV-2 aerostability and infection risk. A. Haddrell et al (2024)How did we get here: what are droplets and aerosols and how far do they go? A historical perspective on the transmission of respiratory infectious diseases. K. Randall et. al (2021)Dr. Katie Randall's TEDx talk The tiny COVID mistake with deadly implicationsGet your free respirators from the global directory of MaskBlocsCREDITSPublic Health is Dead is created, hosted, produced, written, and edited by Daniella Barreto.Music, mixing, and sound design by Alexandria Maillot.Fact checking, guest booking, and production support from Anika S.Content editing support from Kevin Ball, Sophie Kohn, Anika S and Lauren M.Thank you to Tom J. for the archive of COVID press conference footage.Episode art created by Daniella from Hendrik Goltzius, after Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem: Icarus, from "The Four Disgracers" (1588) and CDC image of H5N1.Thank you to all Public Health is Dead supporters!N.B. It’s a bad idea for you to take medical advice from podcasts. Good thing this show does not offer medical advice! The point of Public Health is Dead is to share experiences and information that might help public health as a field and increase our collective knowledge. This is an independent, listener-supported show. If you like what you hear, and you'd like to support production costs for more of Public Health is Dead, visit publichealthisdead.com!
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Public Health is Dead is a forward-thinking autopsy on how we've f*cked up in public health. How do we prepare for future pandemics while we're already in the thick of one? And how do we reinvent systems that place some of us closer to death? Through examining our past successes and failures, often through the lens of COVID, we plot a route out of apathy and denial towards health liberation for all. You'll hear unusual tales of how we've battled infectious disease throughout history and mind-stretching interviews with undaunted public health advocates today. This podcast is your anti-establishment field guide to surviving in the era of pandemics — full of vision, hope, and a little punk rock attitude. Public Health is Dead is a eulogy for the field as we know it and a gathering of voices to map out where we go next. Visit publichealthisdead.com for more information
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