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
1
Part Nine: The Next Pandemic
35 min
2
Part Eight: The Future of mRNA
27 min
3
Part Seven: The Vaccine Race
35 min
4
Part Six: Unlikely Heroes
37 min
5
Part Five: The Covid Fortress
29 min
6
Part Four: Covid’s Long, Scary Tail
25 min
7
Part Three: Rehab for Long Haulers
29 min
8
Part Two: How the Dead Are Helping the Living
33 min
9
Part One: Long Covid’s Early Origins
29 min
10
Introducing: Breakthrough
2 min
11
Doubt, Bonus: A Surprising Southern Success
36 min
12
Doubt, Part Six: Hope
49 min
13
Doubt, Part Five: Getting Out of the Boat
39 min
14
Doubt, Part Four: 'Let's Go to War'
48 min
15
Doubt, Part Three: The Happiest Place on Earth
41 min
16
Doubt, Part Two: The Man Behind The Myth
57 min
17
Doubt, Part One: Rumor Has It
40 min
18
What Closing Schools Has Done to Kids
11 min
19
The Science of Beating Variants
12 min
20
Introducing: Doubt
2 min
21
One Year
24 min
22
What Israel Can Teach Us
13 min
23
Coming Soon: The Pay Check Season 3
3 min
24
Is Pfizer's Vaccine Plan Fair?
16 min
25
Nursing Home Deaths Become a Political Football
16 min