Hi, I'm Tanya Lewis.

And I'm Josh Fishman.

We're a scientific American senior health editors.

Welcome to the show formerly known as COVID Quickly.

But now it's the first episode of a new show that's about COVID but also a lot more.

We're entering the third year of our podcast, wow.

And the fourth year of COVID, the disease is still here and it's still serious, but life

for everyone is a little bit different now.

So instead of just pandemic news, we want to highlight other health news too.

And demystify medical research in a way you can use to stay healthy.

We're calling the show Your Health Quickly.

We'll keep covering important updates on COVID.

But now we're also going to bring you the latest research on other infectious diseases,

like the flu.

And non-infectious ones like cancer and heart disease, reproductive health and mental

health.

We'll also discuss the latest science on preventive health, nutrition and much more.

We hope you enjoy the show.

We should probably tell people what we're talking about today.

Okay.

So our first topic is still somewhat COVID related, but it's something we haven't really

talked about that much.

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