Thu. 02/24 - The Little-Known Women Who Saved Millions of Children
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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff
4.6 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:31.7 | Welcome to the Kotky Ride Home for Thursday, February 24th, 2022. |
| 0:41.0 | I'm Jackson Bird today. |
| 0:43.1 | The too little-known story of the creation of the Whooping Cough vaccine. |
| 0:49.1 | Plus, the remarkable initiatives in Taiwan that are helping keep the country clean with a little help from |
| 0:55.2 | Beethoven and a new Netflix docu-series that uses AI to recreate Andy Warhol's voice reading his |
| 1:02.8 | diaries. Here are some of the cool things from the news today. In the 1930s, Whoopingkopf, also known more formally as protesis, killed up to 7,500 Americans every year, mostly small children. |
| 1:19.0 | It was a horrific, pernicious disease. It began in what seemed like a benign way. |
| 1:24.6 | A runny nose, a mild cough, nothing to worry about. But by the time the cough became so intense that the patient was turning blue, spasming, |
| 1:32.3 | and gasping for breath in the trademark heave that gives the disease its common name, |
| 1:37.3 | it was almost too late. |
| 1:39.3 | Even now, there's not much help that can be provided at that point. |
| 1:43.3 | Survivors often face permanent, |
| 1:45.0 | physical, or cognitive injuries in part from the loss of oxygen. But by the 1970s, annual deaths |
| 1:51.1 | from Protesis had dropped to just 10, thanks to the pioneering work of two scientists who do not |
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