"seeking Justice" Live Radio Talk
Learning from Past Pandemics. Meeting Present Challenges within the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 1:00:04
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Synopsis
What have we learned from past pandemics? How does an understanding of social medicine help us to face present challenges with COVID-19? How might one's viral load (of the SARS-2 Virus) impact the human experience of COVID-19? Dr. Raul Necochea & Dr. Rimma Osipov from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill discuss the factors within these questions regarding the COVID-19 Pandemic. Comparing past experiences the pandemics/epidemics of the polio virus, small pox and the 1918 Flu, Dr. Raul Necochea, Associate Professor of History & Associate Professor of Social Medicine at UNC CH extrapolates the importance of social medicine. He highlights the importance of a thorough understanding of the communities, health care systems, access to resources through transportation & limited capital directly impacts a community, region or country's collective experience of an epidemic or pandemic. He compares his own experience with the polio virus fears growing up and how the challenges of access to vaccine