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
51
How It All Started (Rebroadcast)
21 min
52
What We Know About Covid's Origins
9 min
53
A New Technology Hiding in Covid Vaccines
14 min
54
Lessons From Past Vaccines
16 min
55
How Companies Are Lining Up Shots for Workers
15 min
56
Voices From the U.S. Vaccine Program
13 min
57
Louisiana's Vaccine Test Run
14 min
58
The Doctor Behind the Government's Vaccine Deals
15 min
59
Who Should Get the First Doses?
12 min
60
A Turning Point Week Ahead
12 min
61
The Struggle to Distribute the Vaccine
14 min
62
Biden’s Pandemic Response Overhaul
15 min
63
A Bubble Made Up of Millions
14 min
64
Business, Interrupted
41 min
65
Where to Be in a Pandemic
16 min
66
Governors Brace For Winter
13 min
67
Can Enclosed Outdoor Dining Really Be Safe?
10 min
68
Can We Make Enough Covid Drugs?
14 min
69
Dr. Fauci on What the Vaccine News Means
11 min
70
A Global Virus Report Card
15 min
71
Special Edition: The Next Year of the Virus
29 min
72
The Cost of Taking Cases to Zero
12 min
73
One College Is Containing Covid
14 min
74
Your Questions About the Coming Winter
14 min
75
Inside the Push For a Vaccine in the U.S.
12 min