Prognosis: Breakthrough

On Breakthrough, a new series from the Prognosis podcast, we explore how the pandemic is changing our understanding of healthcare and medicine. We start with an examination of long Covid, a mysterious new illness that has stumped doctors attempting to treat symptoms that last for months and potentially years. It has changed the way hospitals work and forced healthcare officials to prepare for the next pandemic. Covid has also opened the door to revolutionary technology: messenger RNA vaccines. It’s a technology that never could have been proven so quickly outside the crucible of that first pandemic year, 2020, and it holds big implications for the future of medicine.

Science
Health & Fitness
26
Johnson & Johnson's CEO on the Newest Vaccine
13 min
27
Can the Arts Recover?
9 min
28
The Second Shot Squeeze
16 min
29
How the Vaccines Will Change Our Lives
8 min
30
The Good Kind of Surge
15 min
31
Fixing Vaccine Inequity
15 min
32
Combating COVID in the ER
12 min
33
The Pop-Up Vaccine Factories
12 min
34
Racing to Update the Vaccines For Variants
12 min
35
The Bitter Fight Over What's Safe For Schools
13 min
36
The Covid Symptoms Hidden in Our Voices
14 min
37
The Career Problem-Solver Taking on the Pandemic
11 min
38
Some Health Workers Can't Get a Vaccine
10 min
39
Can Biden's CDC Rehab Its Reputation?
11 min
40
We're Not Hunting Hard Enough For Variants
12 min
41
What to Do About Schools
13 min
42
Can Drugstores Save Us?
13 min
43
The Global Vaccine Gap
14 min
44
Where to Be in a Pandemic (Rebroadcast)
15 min
45
Can We Fix the Chaotic Vaccine Rollout?
15 min
46
Why Healthcare Workers Refuse the Vaccine
13 min
47
What Allergic Vaccine Reactions Mean For You
12 min
48
The U.K. Health System Threatens to Buckle
15 min
49
Vaccines via Eventbrite
14 min
50
Vaccinating the Worst-Hit Southeast Asian Country
15 min