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What Next TBD: Why Is Everybody Sick?

Slate Technology

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Society & Culture, Technology, History

4.6636 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Are we still paying off our pandemic-induced “immunity debt,” or is there another reason that it feels like we’re all sniffling and coughing and just feeling sick? Guest: Keren Landman, senior health reporter at Vox If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

My name is Caden Sinclair.

0:06.0

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0:08.0

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0:11.0

We were happy. We wanted for nothing.

0:14.0

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0:17.0

Something terrible happened last summer, and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.

0:22.2

No one in my family will tell me.

0:24.6

When you're left for dead, you want answers.

0:27.1

We were Liars.

0:28.2

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0:32.2

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0:58.0

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1:03.8

I'm going to just recount for you, and you honestly might be able to hear it in my voice,

1:08.0

my past month.

1:13.1

When I got Karen Landman on the line, I kind of wanted to impress her with my misery.

1:19.7

Karen is a senior health reporter at Vox.

1:22.6

She's also an epidemiologist and infectious disease doctor.

1:27.8

In the past month, I have had definitely one random upper respiratory infection,

1:34.0

strep throat, another upper respiratory infection,

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