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Hey listeners, it's Lindsay Smith-Rogers, and today are 1,000th episode.

For this special episode, Josh Sharfstein, Stephanie Desmond, and I met in the studio to talk about public health on call, and we answer your listener questions and voice memos.

This episode, by the way, is also available as a video, and you can find the link to watch in the show notes.

Thank you so much for listening to this and all of our episodes. Enjoy the show.

We're in the studio. Welcome. Hello.

Stephanie.

One thousand episodes. We are here to talk about 1,000 episodes. We are here to talk about 1,000 episodes.

So we are in the studio. We've invited our listeners, all of you, to send in some questions for us to answer.

We've got some voice memos. We've got some emails. And then I've also been compiling questions

that we've received throughout the year that I'm just going to call listener questions.

To start off, I do want to remind everybody of our origin story. So we launched on March 3rd,

2020, in the very early

days of the COVID-19 pandemic. We were a daily podcast for a while. I don't know if you all

remember that. I do. I think we were twice a day. A few times we were twice a day, yes. And actually,

it is a bit of a misnomer that this is our 1,000th episode because, Josh, do you want to explain why?

Because we had bonus episodes. We did. We have an uncounted number of bonus episodes.

So we probably hit 1,000 episodes a long time ago. But this is, you know, for all intents and

purposes, our 1,000th episode. We slowly started to branch out after that daily podcast into other

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