Stories of COVID-19: Generations, Part 2
The Story Collider
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In Part 2 of this episode, we’ll share two more stories about the impact of COVID-19 across generations. Our first story is from two storytellers — science communicator Ian Haydon and his mother, retired writer and editor Judy Stokes. Their story begins when Ian calls his mother in March and reveals that he will be participating in a Phase 1 COVID-19 vaccine trial.
Our second story is from Krishna Pakala, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering at Boise State University. In his story, Krishna also receives a fateful phone call — from his family back home in India, telling him that his father has been diagnosed with COVID-19.
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| 0:42.4 | Hello and welcome back to StoryClider's stories of COVID-19. |
| 0:49.1 | I'm your host, Artistic Director Aaron Barker, and today we're bringing you part two of our episode on Generations. |
| 0:54.2 | If you missed part one, we shared a story from Mary Sue Kitchen, former director of a public health laboratory, about how her grandmother's experience of the 1918 pandemic influenced |
| 0:59.8 | the course of her life. We also spoke with historian Marta Hansen about pandemics of the past. |
| 1:05.2 | And now we have two more stories for you about how the pandemic is being experienced across |
| 1:10.3 | generations. |
| 1:11.8 | Our first story comes from two storytellers, who are mother and son, Judy Stokes and Ian Hayden. |
| 1:18.2 | This story was recorded with them together with me online. |
| 1:22.0 | Judy in her home in Sacramento, California, and Ian in his home in Seattle, Washington. |
| 1:37.8 | In early March, I learned that the world's first COVID-19 vaccine trial was happening in my city when a co-worker posted about it on Slack. He wrote, if you've heard that a vaccine for |
| 1:43.5 | the new coronavirus could be ready by |
| 1:45.1 | the end of the year, this is the trial they're referring to. As chance would have it, my coworker |
| 1:50.1 | Dan who posted that message knows a thing or two about vaccines. He actually designs them. He and I both |
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