What our cholera and COVID mistakes have in common; Evolution of diabetes tech
Publisher |
NPR
WBUR
Media Type |
audio
Podknife tags |
News & Politics
On The Radio
Categories Via RSS |
News
Publication Date |
May 10, 2022
Episode Duration |
00:41:45
In the 19th century, officials thought cholera spread through smelly air, until one maverick doctor insisted that contaminated water was the culprit. Host Scott Tong looks at how the health establishment had false assumptions about cholera and the parallels with the COVID pandemic, where experts made a similar wrong assumption about how the virus spread. And, changing technology is revolutionizing diabetes care. One journalist with Type 1 diabetes details what's new.

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