Why Is Everybody Sick?
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🗓️ 28 January 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
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
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| 1:04.0 | I'm going to just recount for you and you honestly might be able to hear it in my voice. |
| 1:12.0 | My past... count for you and you honestly might be able to hear it in my voice my past month. |
| 1:15.7 | When I got Karen Landman on the line, I kind of wanted to impress her with my misery. |
| 1:24.8 | Karen is a senior health reporter at Vox. |
| 1:27.6 | She's also an epidemiologist and infectious disease doctor. In the past month I have had definitely one random upper respiratory infection strep throat, |
| 1:40.0 | another upper respiratory infection which turned into a sinus infection and pink eye in both eyes for which I am still wearing my glasses. |
| 1:50.0 | Oh God. Am I normal? Do I sound run-of-the-mill right now? |
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