Never had the flu? Scientists may know why
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🗓️ 3 April 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Shortwave from NPR. |
| 0:05.4 | Hey, shortwavers. Emily Kwong here with my co-host, Regina Barber. Hey, I'm. Hi, and Juana Summers. One of the many awesome hosts of all things considered. Aren't you so excited to take a break from the hard news? It's always fun hanging out with y'all. Oh, we are fun. Excellent. Excellent. Well, this episode is our biweekly science news roundup where we wax poetic about some of the most interesting science stories we found online in the journals, in pop culture, anywhere cool science could be happening. |
| 0:30.1 | Sounds like most off on the journals. |
| 0:31.5 | Yeah, that's just true. |
| 0:32.0 | Science is happening around us all the time. |
| 0:35.6 | But this week, the stories we found are mostly focused on health. See, |
| 0:38.8 | like, that is around us, right? It is. Yeah, it's true. Have either of you gotten the flu this |
| 0:43.8 | season? This is my important question for our show. Knock on wood, not yet. Me neither. |
| 0:47.9 | I got a vaccine, so no. Yeah. Awesome. Awesome. Well, I'll be curious to, to see, like, |
| 0:53.1 | what you think about this first topic, because we are talking about people who have never gotten the flu. And then we're going to talk about something that I think Wana is going to be interested in exercise. Yeah, I'm a runner. I'm excited for this. |
| 1:06.8 | Our second story also may change up your routine because it's about why you may need less vigorous exercise than you think. |
| 1:13.5 | Interesting. And then I think we're going to round it all out with a study on the effects of fortifying food, right? |
| 1:17.8 | That is right. |
| 1:18.4 | Food, flu, and fitness today on the show. Let's get healthy. |
| 1:23.3 | You're listening to Shortwave, the science podcast from NPR. |
| 1:33.0 | Thank you. You're listening to Shortwave, the science podcast from NPR. Okay, Gina and Wana, I have gathered us all to this fine studio in the depths of NPR to chat about some new interesting health studies. |
| 1:41.6 | Okay. |
| 1:42.1 | Wana, which one do you want to talk about first? Okay, I want to start off with this flu |
| 1:46.4 | story because I am not a person who really gets the flu. I don't think I've actually ever |
| 1:51.4 | had it before. What about you guys? That is ridiculous. Crossing my fingers. I might have |
| 1:56.3 | just janked myself. Good for you. The flu heard you. Let's message us next week. |
| 2:01.1 | Yeah. So it sounds like this story is kind of about people like me who don't get the flu. And so |
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