Coronavirus: Pregnant in a Pandemic

Science Vs

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Education, Science, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 12.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

How bad is the coronavirus for pregnant people and babies? Producer Meryl Horn is digging into this question for today’s episode. And it’s personal, because Meryl is pregnant and living in the pandemic hot spot that is New York City. We talk to Professor Emily Oster, pathologist Dr. David Schwartz, and obstetrician Dr. Suzanne LaJoie. Also: SWIMMING DINOSAURS!? Here’s a link to our transcript: bit.ly/2YKzD7e This episode was produced by Meryl Horn with help from me Wendy Zukerman, Rose Rimler, Laura Morris, Michelle Dang and Sinduja Srinivasan. We’re edited by Blythe Terrell with help from Caitlin Kenney. Fact checking by Diane Kelly. Mix and sound design by Peter Leonard. Music written by Peter Leonard, Marcus Bagala, Emma Munger, and Bobby Lord. A big thanks to all the researchers we got in touch with for this episode, including Dr Neel Shah, Dr William Schweizer, Dr Edward Mullins, Dr David Shaffer, Dr Gianluca Esposito, Dr István Bókkon, Dr Vassilios Fanos, Dr Reut Avinun, Dr Anastasia Topalidou, Dr Alan Sroufe, Dr Pehr Granqvist, and Dr David Baud. And thanks to all the women who shared their stories with us: Alexandra Schinasi, Courtney Desman, and Caitlin Bertin-Mahieux. And special thanks to the Zukerman family, Joseph Lavelle Wilson and Chris Suter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Wendy Zuckerman and you're listening to Science Vestus from Gimlet.
0:04.8	This coronavirus is screwing around with all of our lives, making things feel scary and
0:10.1	uncertain.
0:11.1	And for one of our producers, Merrill Horn, all that scariness and uncertainty is amplified.
0:17.9	A lot.
0:20.6	Merrill takes it from here.
0:24.1	This has been a weird time for me.
0:26.5	It's been weird for everyone.
0:27.5	We're in a pandemic.
0:29.4	But on top of that, I'm also pregnant.
0:31.8	If you listen to our episode on the fertility cliff, you'll know that getting pregnant was
0:35.6	a struggle for me.
0:37.0	But it happened.
0:38.4	And now my husband, Chris Soutor and I are expecting a baby girl to interlye.
0:42.4	Do you think we should name her corona?
0:45.3	I was just thinking like...
0:48.5	Pandy?
0:49.5	I don't know.
0:50.5	I don't know.
0:51.5	It's just a, you know, short for pandemic.
0:56.0	Or Rona.
0:57.0	I think anything's better than a Pandy.
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