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We're better off with health equity | News | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health


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Anna Fisher-Pinkert: From the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, this is Better Off. A podcast about the biggest public health problems we face today . . .
Mary Bassett: We have to remember the kinds of vulnerabilities that made the US have a disproportionate share of the world’s deaths, as compared to our population, despite our vast resources.
Anna Fisher-Pinkert: . . . and the people innovating to create public health solutions.
Mary Bassett: And those won’t be fixed with a vaccine.
Anna Fisher-Pinkert: I’m your host, Anna Fisher-Pinkert.
Anna Fisher-Pinkert: I got my COVID-19 vaccine in a busy clinic in Boston. As soon as the nurse gave me the shot, she handed me a little timer set for 15 minutes, the length of time they ask you to hang around to make sure you don’t have any adverse effects. I sat in the waiting room, surrounded by masked people sort of squirming impatiently in their seats. And one by one, the timers went off [be ....

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We're better off when we stop pandemics before they start | News | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health


Better Off, a podcast about the biggest public health problems we face today . . .
Aaron (Ari) Bernstein: Burning fossil fuels creates air pollution. That air pollution causes a whole suite of diseases we don’t want from lung cancer, strokes, heart attacks, asthma
Anna Fisher-Pinkert: . . . and the people innovating to create public health solutions.
Ari Bernstein: So if we get off fossil fuels and make less air pollution, we’re going to address climate change, and we’re going to be more resilient to an infectious disease like coronavirus.
Anna Fisher-Pinkert: I’m your host, Anna Fisher-Pinkert.
Last spring, I found a dead possum in my backyard. I’m a city girl, and I was totally unprepared for this situation. I called a friend who helped me dispose of it. My first thought, because of the pandemic, was infectious disease. How did I know whether the possum had been sick? How did I know if it could pass that disease to me? ....

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