We're joined by Charlie Markbreiter to pour one out for Lauren Berlant and reflect on what their work meant to each of us.

But first (until 31:45), we discuss newly released draft OSHA guidelines suggesting the Biden administration considered much stronger worker protections against COVID—until they were aggressively lobbied by industry groups to limit their scope.

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Death Panel Episode 256 They Did What They Could at the Time w/ Charlie Markbreiter (07/01/21)

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They Did What They Could at the Time w/ Charlie Markbreiter (07/01/21)

Epidemiologist Abby Cartus joins us to discuss why nothing is being done about fall school reopenings and the increasing prevalence of pediatric covid hospitalizations. We also take the opportunity to check in on our rogue's gallery of cloyingly positive pandemic influencers, like Emily Oster and Monica Gandhi.

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Death Panel Episode 275 What Does Public Health Really Mean? w/ Abby Cartus (08/19/21)

What Does Public Health Really Mean? w/ Abby Cartus (08/19/21)

We discuss the Biden administration's Global COVID-19 Summit, the decision by the CDC and FDA this week to approve booster shots of the Pfizer vaccine, and where things stand with the TRIPS waiver.

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Death Panel Episode 286 Operation Enduring Virus (09/24/21)

Operation Enduring Virus (09/24/21)

We celebrate Halloween the Death Panel way: with two chilling tales of empire and capital, as read by the one and only Phil Rocco.

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A Death Panel Halloween (10/28/21)

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Justin Feldman joins us to discuss how the narrative on covid has largely dropped enduring racial and economic disparities in deaths, and a certain milestone we've probably crossed due to underreporting. We also discuss his recent study in JAMA showing that if everyone had died at the same rate as college-educated white people in the first year of the pandemic 71% fewer people of color would have died.

Justin Feldman is an epidemiologist of social inequality and state violence and a Health & Human Rights Fellow at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard. You can follow him on Twitter @jfeldman_epi

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Referenced in this episode: 

Justin's study, "Variation in COVID-19 Mortality in the US by Race and Ethnicity and Educational Attainment" in JAMA:
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2786466

Justin's piece for Slate, "All the Ways That “1 in 5,000 per Day” Breakthrough Infection Stat Is Nonsense":
https://slate.com/technology/2021/09/breakthrough-infections-one-in-five-thousand-nonsense.html

Death Panel Episode 302 One Million w/ Justin Feldman (12/02/21)

One Million w/ Justin Feldman (12/02/21)

We discuss two newly pervasive lines on the pandemic. First, that case numbers are an increasingly unimportant metric, and that what we should be looking to hospitalization numbers instead. Second, that on top of that, we need to find out how many people are "hospitalized for" covid, compared with those who are simply "hospitalized with" covid.

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Death Panel Episode 310 Vaxxed and Collapsed (01/06/22)

Vaxxed and Collapsed (01/06/22)

We're joined by Astra Taylor and Marshall Steinbaum for a conversation on why ending student debt is so pressing, the Biden administration's failure to fulfill its promises on student debt, and why we need a broader debt jubilee.

Astra Taylor is cofounder of the Debt Collective, a filmmaker, and the author of The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age and Democracy May Not Exist, but We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone (Metropolitan Books).

Marshall Steinbaum is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Utah and a Senior Fellow in Higher Education Finance at Jain Family Institute.

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Death Panel Episode 312 Cancel Student Debt w/ Astra Taylor and Marshall Steinbaum (01/13/22)

Cancel Student Debt w/ Astra Taylor and Marshall Steinbaum (01/13/22)

Epidemiologist Abby Cartus returns for a wide ranging conversation on the current state of the school closing/reopening debate and the ongoing vilification of teachers unions and student walkouts.

Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book! Pre-order HEALTH COMMUNISM here:
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Death Panel Episode 314 Plague School w/ Abby Cartus (01/20/22)

Plague School w/ Abby Cartus (01/20/22)

We discuss the details of the CDC's new redefinition of its covid risk guidelines, and why they don't provide any good justification to drop masking.

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Death Panel Episode 324 Lying Like A State (03/02/22)

Lying Like A State (03/02/22)

Bea, Artie, and Abby discuss the end of mask mandates in healthcare settings, why masking in places like hospitals was a good idea even pre-pandemic, and the one US agency that could put the brakes on this development——but isn't.

Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

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Read Bea's essay on Eric Adams "mask off at the door" policy proposal here: https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2023/04/09/mask-off-at-the-door-policies-undermine-our-rights-as-disabled-people/

Death Panel 426 Masking in Healthcare (04/20/23)

Masking in Healthcare (04/20/23)

We hope you can join us for the discussion of this excerpt from the Socialist Patients' Collective Manifesto in the Death Panel reading group on Sunday, September 27th at 5PM Eastern Standard Time.

Each week, Charlie Markbreiter and Sal Hamerman lead us through an open-ended voice and text chat discussion of a text in the Death Panel discord server. For more info on how to join reading group: www.deathpanel.carrd.co/

Here is a PDF of the excerpt from the SPK Manifesto, "Turn Illness Into a Weapon," if you would like to read along with the audio file:https://arena-attachments.s3.amazonaws.com/8830232/15751f634e75f1e034f678e880f39f46.pdf?1600863921

"Turn Illness Into a Weapon" - SPK Manifesto Excerpt

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