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The Covid Files 3: “They’re Trying to Control your Mind”

Release Date: 04/30/2020

Going Viral - The Podcast

As the UK’s independent public inquiry into Covid-19 gets underway, members of the Covid bereaved complain that they are not being given an opportunity to testify. Today, in the second part of our two-part special, Mark speaks to the parents of Susan Sullivan, a woman with Down's Syndrome who died of Covid-19 at Barnet General Hospital on March 28, 2020, after being deemed “not for resuscitation” and he reveals the findings of a confidential investigation by the Royal Free NHS Hospital Trust into her death. The report, which makes for shocking reading, found that Susan was not seen by...

The Dancing Queen

Going Viral - The Podcast

As the UK’s independent public inquiry into Covid-19 gets underway, members of the Covid bereaved complain that they are not being given an opportunity to testify. Today, Mark speaks to the parents of Susan Sullivan, a woman with Down's Syndrome who died of Covid-19 at Barnet General Hospital on March 28, 2020, after being deemed “not for resuscitation” and being denied access to intensive care. The Sullivans have long suspected that their daughter was the victim of medical bias and may have survived if the hospital had granted her statutory right to have a family member at her...

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Going Viral - The Podcast

As the UK’s independent public inquiry into Covid-19 gets underway, members of the Covid bereaved complain that they are not being given an opportunity to testify. In a new two part special, Mark speaks to the parents of Susan Sullivan, a Down’s Syndrome woman who died of Covid-19 at Barnet General Hospital on March 28, 2020, after being deemed “not for resuscitation” and being denied access to intensive care. The Sullivans have long suspected that their daughter was the victim of medical bias and may have survived if the hospital had granted her statutory right to have a family...

What Would An Ethical Pandemic Look Like?

Going Viral - The Podcast

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 Wilson and John Prideaux dissect the British Government’s approach during the Covid-19 pandemic and explore the failure to engage seriously with the ethical challenges the pandemic raised, comparing the British approach with those in the USA and China. And they debate how ethicists and ethical thinking could play a more central role in deciding...

How Many Deaths Are Too Many?

Going Viral - The Podcast

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, Boris Johnson stopped short of ordering the sort of lockdowns seen in other countries and warned that, “many more families are going to lose loved ones before their time.” This approach belied a series of value judgements and trade-offs where people’s lives were set against other values, such as personal liberty and the economy. Today Mark and his guests Anjana Ahuja, Martin McKee and Dominic...

Covid Inequalities with Professor Sir Michael Marmot

Going Viral - The Podcast

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 systems to respond effectively to pandemics and other health emergencies. Despite being an outspoken critic of austerity and the policies of successive Coalition and Conservative British governments, he was named a Companion of Honour in the 2023 New Year Honour’s List. Today Prof Sir Michael Marmot speaks to Mark about Covid-19 and health...

All In It Together: Were Unequal Outcomes Inevitable during Covid-19?

Going Viral - The Podcast

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 and his guests Charlotte Augst, Halima Begum and Beth Kamunge-Kpodo discuss unequal outcomes during the Covid-19. With Professor Sir Michael Marmot and Pastor Mick Fleming. Produced in collaboration with the UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator. Presented by Mark Honigsbaum With: Dr. Charlotte Augst Former Chief Executive of National Voices, a coalition...

Who Do We Trust in a Pandemic?

Going Viral - The Podcast

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 Christina Pagel discuss trust during the Covid-19 pandemic for this Going Viral special, produced in collaboration with the UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator. Presented by Mark Honigsbaum With: Anjana Ahuja Anjana Ahuja is a contributing writer on science for the Financial Times, offering weekly opinion on significant developments in global science, health...

Collecting Covid

Going Viral - The Podcast

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 Covid-19 pandemic, including some major works of art. Hosted by Mark Honigsbaum With: Natasha McEnroe, Keep of Medicine at Science Museum London Roxanna Halls on her painting of Katie Tomkins, Mortuary and Post-Mortem Services Manager at West Herts Hospitals NHS Trust, created as part of the Portraits for NHS Heroes project in response to the...

Bearing Witness with Dr. Rachel Clarke

Going Viral - The Podcast

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 health workers. In this episode, the Oxford-based palliative care doctor, Rachel Clarke, recalls her experience of the first wave of Covid-19 as it ripped through the wards of her local hospital and emphasises the importance of holding the government to account for the UK’s coronavirus death toll. Recorded at the Department of Journalism at City,...

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Mark debunks the latest #batshitcrazy conspiracy theories about Covid-19 with David Robert Grimes and Mike Jay.

Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum

With

David Robert Grimes @drg1985 cancer researcher and vocal opponent of conspiracy theorists.

His new book ‘The Irrational Ape’ on why we get everything from medicine to politics wrong and how we can stop ourselves falling victim to fools, liars and charlatans, will be out on Sept 5th 2020.

Mike Jay @MikeJayNet author and cultural historian, Mike writes widely on the history of science and medicine.

https://mikejay.net/books/the-influencing-machine/

https://mikejay.net/darkness-over-all/

https://mikejay.net/stranger-fiction/

Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg

Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com

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