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G&R Episode 42: Covid-19 and Trump's “Herd Mentality” ft. Prof. Sarah Koster

G&R Episode 42: Covid-19 and Trump's “Herd Mentality” ft. Prof. Sarah Koster

FromGreen & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals


G&R Episode 42: Covid-19 and Trump's “Herd Mentality” ft. Prof. Sarah Koster

FromGreen & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals

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Length:
55 minutes
Released:
Oct 1, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Over 200,000 Americans have died from Covid-19. That number is expected to double in the next few months. The Trump Administration continues to put out misinformation about vaccines and tests the idea of "herd mentality" (we think he meant "herd immunity") as the only real solution.  In this episode, we dive into these issues and more with returning guest Prof. Sarah Koster (@NotSoNormalNaCl) from Samuel Merritt University in Oakland, CA.  
We also talk reproductive health politics around Trump's supreme court nominee and the forced hysterectomies being carried out in ICE detention centers. 
Sarah is a Family Nurse Practitioner and also has Masters in Public Health from the University of Washington in Seattle. Sarah worked in research and program evaluation for about 7 years with the Infectious Disease Division at the University of New Mexico Medical School and completed a fellowship in Infectious Disease Epidemiology with the University of Alabama at Birmingham while living in Southern Africa. She teaches Community Health at Samuel Merritt University in Oakland, CA and is committed to involving students in conversations about the importance of structural determinants of health including how capitalism and various existing political systems, in the US and globally, continue to negatively affect health outcomes. 
Read more: 

Excess Mortality Data Shows Trump Is Lying About Covid-19 Being More Deadly in Europe (https://bit.ly/2SdGJg1) 
Hospital where activists say ICE detainees were subjected to hysterectomies says just two were performed there (https://wapo.st/3n2j0O6) 
Trump says overturning Roe v Wade 'possible' with Barrett on supreme court (https://bit.ly/3ng9mYq)  

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This is a Green and Red Podcast production. Produced by Scott   (@sparki1969) and Bob  (@bobbuzzanco). "Green and Red Blues" by Moody.  Editing by Isaac.
Released:
Oct 1, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

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Welcome to our scrappy podcast. Bob Buzzanco and Scott Parkin co-host a regular podcast to discuss radical environmental and anti-capitalist politics with organizers, academics, artists and more. Bob Buzzanco is a professor of history at the University of Houston. He specializes in, writes about and talks on the Vietnam War era, foreign policy, Vietnam, radical social movements, economics, and other stuff. Scott Parkin is climate organizer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has organized campaigns against Wall Street banks, mountaintop removal coal mining and the Keystone XL pipeline.