Going Viral
By Mark Honigsbaum / Zinc Media
The science & history podcast all about PANDEMICS.
Series 1: Join the 'disease detectives' Mark Honigsbaum and Hannah Mawdsley as they investigate the most devastating pandemic of all time: the 1918 Spanish influenza. Part scientific detective story, part historical inquiry, 'Going Viral' takes listeners to the scene of the viral crime and in the process recovers the experience of the world's deadliest virus, which is 100 years old.
Series 2: The Covid Files: 100 years after the deadly Spanish Flu, Mark and his guests discuss the many faces of the Covid-19 pandemic. What lessons can we learn from history?
Series 3: It's the science story of the century - how successful vaccines against Covid-19 have been created in under a year. In 'Vaxx and the Facts', Marks takes a deep dive into the history and science of vaccinations - exploring how they work, where they come from and where they may be going.
Series 4: Pandemic Ethics: produced in collaboration with the UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator.
Follow our news on Twitter @GoingViral_pod
Follow us on Instagram - goingviral_thepodcast
Blog: markhonigsbaum.substack.com
Series 1: Join the 'disease detectives' Mark Honigsbaum and Hannah Mawdsley as they investigate the most devastating pandemic of all time: the 1918 Spanish influenza. Part scientific detective story, part historical inquiry, 'Going Viral' takes listeners to the scene of the viral crime and in the process recovers the experience of the world's deadliest virus, which is 100 years old.
Series 2: The Covid Files: 100 years after the deadly Spanish Flu, Mark and his guests discuss the many faces of the Covid-19 pandemic. What lessons can we learn from history?
Series 3: It's the science story of the century - how successful vaccines against Covid-19 have been created in under a year. In 'Vaxx and the Facts', Marks takes a deep dive into the history and science of vaccinations - exploring how they work, where they come from and where they may be going.
Series 4: Pandemic Ethics: produced in collaboration with the UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator.
Follow our news on Twitter @GoingViral_pod
Follow us on Instagram - goingviral_thepodcast
Blog: markhonigsbaum.substack.com
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Who Do We Not Save?
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The Dancing Queen
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NEW 2 Part Special Coming Soon...
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What Would An Ethical Pandemic Look Like?
As sure as night follows day, we will face another pandemic, so how can we learn from the mistakes made during Covid-19, to ensure our response next time is not only more effective, but also more ethical? Today Mark and his guests Ilina Singh, James.… -
How Many Deaths Are Too Many?
From the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic, the British Government made it clear that a baseline level of mortality from Covid was being “priced in” to its decision making: on March 12th 2020, the Boris Johnson stopped short of ordering the sort of... -
Covid Inequalities with Professor Sir Michael Marmot
Professor Sir Michael Marmot has been researching health inequalities and their relationship to social injustice for more than 50 years. He has long been a vocal critic of how health inequalities undermine social cohesion and the ability of health... -
All In It Together: Were Unequal Outcomes Inevitable during Covid-19?
When Covid-19 first struck the UK, the disease was described as “a great leveller”. But it soon became clear that Covid's impacts were not evenly distributed - we may have been in the same storm, but we were in different boats. Today Mark... -
Who Do We Trust in a Pandemic?
The coronavirus pandemic raised significant questions about public trust: trust in science, trust in politicians and trust in the public health messaging. Today Mark and his guests – Anjana Ahuja; Sarah Cunningham-Burley, Charles Kwaku-Odoi, and... -
Collecting Covid
Mark visits the Science Museum in London to look at their Collecting Covid-19 objects and talk to Natasha McEnroe, the museum’s Keeper of Medicine, about their curatorial choices. The collection currently comprises over 400 items relating to the... -
Bearing Witness with Dr. Rachel Clarke
One of the most important functions of journalism is to bear witness to historic events. But in the case of the coronavirus pandemic, some of the most unflinching witnesses to the crisis that engulfed the NHS in 2020-2021 were doctors and frontline..…
