Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/81971897 Bea and Jules speak with Melissa Gira Grant about the medication abortion case that made its way to the Supreme Court last week, and discuss the long and sordid history of the Comstock Act, a 19th century “anti-obscenity” law that continues to shape the modern US state’s regulation of sexuality. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:44:30, 24 April 2023 🧬

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 Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod 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/

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/81660593 Bea, Artie, and Phil discuss the pervasive, perennial myth that the Medicare and Social Security trust funds are on the brink of imminent collapse, a myth that feeds austerity in policymaking and false panic that the programs "won't be around" when younger generations grow old. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:19:30, 17 April 2023 🧬

Bea and Jules speak with Lexi McMenamin about the avalanche of anti-trans laws introduced in state legislatures this year, the Biden administration's very inadequate plan for how to approach trans rights under Title IX, and how traditional media outlets have almost universally failed trans kids. Lexi McMenamin is a writer and the News and Politics Editor at Teen Vogue. Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Find Lexi's recent articles here: https://www.teenvogue.com/contributor/lexi-mcmenamin

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/81319954 Bea and Artie speak with Nathan Tankus about the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, and why popular reporting on the bank's collapse only scratches the surface of the extraordinary measures that made up the government's response. Nathan walks us through how the Federal Reserve tipped its hand last month at the power it has to intervene in political crises, and how to understand SVB's collapse, you have to understand what the Fed did in the early days of the pandemic. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:30:45, 10 April 2023 🧬

This episode was originally a patron exclusive. If you enjoy this episode, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod. Bea, Abby, and Jules speak with Marquisele Mercedes and Monica Kriete about the overwhelming presence of blockbuster drug Ozempic in the media, and how almost every current take on it approaches the drug from a standpoint of unabashed antifatness. Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/80998433 Bea speaks with Kathryn Olivarius about the economy and social structure that emerged around yellow fever in antebellum New Orleans, and the ecosystem of deniers, capitalists, and novel theories of "immunity" that echo our current pandemic. Find Kathryn's book "Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom" here: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674241053 Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:42:37, 3 April 2023 🧬

Bea, Artie, and Phil discuss what it will mean for Medicaid redeterminations to resume April 1st, a process that is expected to see as many as 22 million people lose their health insurance. But first, we check in on a report that the White House will disband its covid team shortly after the public health emergency ends in May, and that Ashish Jha has already been put out to pasture in the Eisenhower building. As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/80631223 Bea speaks with Ragen Chastain about how flimsy—and flawed—research on weight loss and improved health outcomes is, and how pervasive antifatness has allowed the weight loss industry to influence research and clinical practice with relative impunity. Ragen Chastain is a writer and researcher. She is the author of the Weight and Healthcare newsletter and the co-author of the Health At Every Size (HAES) Health Sheets. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:32:31, 27 March 2023 🧬

Bea speaks with Salonee Bhaman about how struggles over housing and healthcare were linked in the early days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in New York, and what lessons we can draw from this history for single payer, long covid, and more. As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Read Salonee's article (gated access) "For a Few Months of Peace: Housing and Care in the Early AIDS Crisis" here: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-8841694 Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/80295762 Bea speaks with Cassandra Kislenko about ethical and political issues with Canada's expansion of MAiD (Medical Assistance in Dying) laws and how we should understand them as a handful of U.S. states seek to implement similar laws. Then, we talk about issues with looking to the Canadian healthcare system as a model for socialized medicine in the U.S. Read Cassandra's piece "How Healthcare Privatization In Ontario Made The Pandemic Worse" here: https://www.readthemaple.com/how-healthcare-privatization-in-ontario-made-the-pandemic-worse/ Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:18:45, 20 March 2023 🧬

This episode was originally a patron exclusive. If you enjoy this episode, consider becoming a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod. Bea and Jules speak with Vicky Osterweil about the recent open letter to the New York Times critical of apparent bias in paper's reporting on trans people. In the first half, we get into the letter, the coverage that provoked it, and the Times' dismal response to the criticism so far. In the second half, we get into the conceptual problems with the coverage and some of the deeper issues in the liberal "just asking questions" framework. Find the open letter here: https://nytletter.com/ Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/79982109 Bea, Abby, and Jules speak with Marquisele Mercedes and Monica Kriete about the overwhelming presence of blockbuster drug Ozempic in the media, and how almost every current take on it approaches the drug from a standpoint of unabashed antifatness. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:44:41, 13 March 2023 🧬

Bea speaks with Ellie Murray about why mask mandates work to reduce the impact of the pandemic, why simply "recommending" masking doesn't, and how the results of a study she co-authored directly contradict recently revived media claims that "masks work, but mandates don't." Find Ellie's study in NEJM here: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2211029 As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/79655098 Bea, Artie, and Phil discuss how two narratives have recently gained significant traction in mainstream discourse: first, the lab leak theory, by way of vague speculation from government officials; and second, the idea that masking doesn't protect against covid, by way of the much-maligned Cochrane review of masking. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:16:40, 6 March 2023 🧬

Bea and Abby speak with Kim Garrett about the train derailment in East Palestine as part of the ongoing disaster of industrial capitalism, the environmental impacts of not just industrial accidents but everyday industry, and how our healthcare system fails to address the needs of those put in harm's way. Kim Garrett is an environmental health researcher working at the intersection of environmental toxicology, public health, and environmental justice. As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/79282210 Bea and Abby speak with Adia Benton about how neoliberalism constrains what public health interventions are considered possible while simultaneously expanding what political issues can be depoliticized as simply a "public health issue." We also look at some of Adia's statements from early in the pandemic on the role of austerity in shaping the covid response, and discuss how development and NGO work shapes the political economy of health. Adia Benton is a cultural anthropologist who studies global health, biomedicine, and the political economy of humanitarianism. She is a Professor of Anthropology and African Studies at Northwestern University and the author of HIV Exceptionalism: Development through Disease in Sierra Leone. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:31:05, 27 February 2023 🧬

In Part 2 of this two-part series, we speak to a few people engaged in organizing and political education projects about their experiences trying to incorporate covid protections into their existing organizing work, wins and losses they've encountered, and why it's so important for the left to take covid seriously, even as the public health emergency comes to a close. In Part 2, we speak with Becca (beginning at 02:30), Raia Small (beginning at 32:00), and Kelly Hayes (1:01:20). As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch

Today's patron episode went extra long, so we felt the best thing to do considering the topic was to post the whole first half as today's public "teaser." Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/78966968 Bea and Jules speak with Vicky Osterweil about the recent open letter to the New York Times critical of apparent bias in paper's reporting on trans people. In the first half, we get into the letter, the coverage that provoked it, and the Times' dismal response to the criticism so far. In the second half, we get into the conceptual problems with the coverage and some of the deeper issues in the liberal "just asking questions" framework. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:58:49, 20 February 2023 🧬

In this two-part series, we speak to a few people engaged in organizing and political education projects about their experiences trying to incorporate covid protections into their existing organizing work, wins and losses they've encountered, and why it's so important for the left to take covid seriously, even as the public health emergency comes to a close. In Part 1, we speak with Alex (beginning at 03:30), a student organizer at a university in the northeast US, and Reina Sultan (beginning at 54:30), a co-creator of 8 to Abolition. Part 2 will be released as next week's public episode. As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod TRANSCRIPT: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/organizing-and-covid-19-part-1 Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/78645421 Bea, Artie, and Phil look at the fallout of the announcement that the public health emergency will end on May 11th, including a number of lines the Biden administration has used to defend the move that don't add up, and contention over what is and isn't part of the emergency declaration. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:13:45, 13 February 2023 🧬

We look back at how such a basic intervention as masking during a pandemic became increasingly scrutinized, undermined, and ultimately stigmatized in mainstream discourse over the last three years. This episode was originally a patron exclusive posted December 19th 2022. If you enjoy this episode, consider becoming a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod. Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/78308989 Beatrice speaks to Megan Linton about the past and present of institutionalization in Canada, the impact of the ongoing pandemic on the population in long term care and nursing homes, Canada's medical assistance in dying program, and Megan's documentary podcast series Invisible Institutions, which just wrapped its first season. Megan Q. Linton is a writer, researcher and doctoral student who studies and challenges the political economy of institutionalization in Canada, and the producer, writer, and host of the documentary podcast series “Invisible Institutions.” Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:33:29 🧬

Bea speaks with Marquisele Mercedes and Monica Kriete about how medicalized antifatness operates in health policy and public health, and discuss a fat liberationist critique of the controversial new guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics. As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch Marquisele (Mikey) Mercedes is a writer, creator, and doctoral student from the Bronx, New York. As a Presidential Fellow at the Brown University School of Public Health, she works at the intersection of critical public health studies, fat studies, and scholarship on race/ism, examining how racism, anti-Blackness, and fatphobia have shaped health care, research, and public health. Mikey is also the co-host of the podcast, Unsolicited: Fatties Talk Back.  Mikey links: https://pipewrenchmag.com/dismantling-medical-fatphobia/ https://www.marquiselemercedes.com/about https://linktr.ee/unsolicitedftb Monica Kriete is a public health communicator and strategist, who studies anti-fatness in health care and public health, and advocates for addressing the structural determinants of health through widespread social change. She provides training and technical assistance to help clinicians, policy makers and researchers understand the flaws of weight-centric health systems and imagine fat-positive health care and health policy. Monica links: https://pipewrenchmag.com/public-health-is-failing-fat-people/ https://www.fattymph.com/

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/77981511 Bea, Artie, and Abby reflect on Jeff Zients’s role as coronavirus response coordinator in 2021 and the beginning of 2022, and why his appointment as Biden’s next chief of staff is such a bad idea. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:14:15, 30 January 2023 🧬

This episode was originally a patron exclusive. If you enjoy this episode, consider becoming a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod. Bea, Artie, and Abby discuss what it will mean for the Biden administration to end the official public health emergency declaration, alongside comments by Ashish Jha that attempt to deflect blame on hospital capacity. Then we take a look at Leana Wen's bold assertion this week that we are "overcounting" covid deaths. Read Bea and Artie's piece in Teen Vogue, "Why The White House Shouldn't Privatize COVID Vaccines," here: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/covid-vaccines-death-panel-oped Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Bea speaks with Liat Ben-Moshe about lessons we can draw from linking disability justice with abolition, the threat posed by moves like California's CARE courts and Eric Adams's involuntary hospitalization policies, and revisit her 2020 book Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition. Find Liat's book here: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/decarcerating-disability Episode Transcript: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/disability-and-abolition-w-liat-ben-moshe As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/77637289 Bea speaks with Dan Berger about his new book Stayed On Freedom, the importance of resisting overly streamlined histories of political movements, and the ongoingness and intergenerational nature of political struggle. Dan's book, Stayed On Freedom: The Long History of Black Power through One Family’s Journey, is out this week from Basic Books: https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/dan-berger/stayed-on-freedom/9781541675360/ Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:10:56, 23 January 2023 🧬

XBB.1.5, aka “Kraken,” may be the latest variant causing a spike in cases, but it isn’t the only one driving spread, nor the only one to watch out for. Bea speaks with evolutionary biologist T Ryan Gregory about how to make sense of the increasingly large pool of new covid variants, what we can do to stop them, and why he and his colleagues suggested the name “Kraken” in the first place. As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/77335507 Bea, Artie, and Abby discuss what it will mean for the Biden administration to end the official public health emergency declaration, alongside comments by Ashish Jha that attempt to deflect blame on hospital capacity. Then we take a look at Leana Wen's bold assertion this week that we are "overcounting" covid deaths. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:13:39, 16 January 2023 🧬

Bea, Jules, and Abby discuss the complicated history of DIY healthcare and DIY transition as a story of class struggle, and how this history can complicate how we talk about physician expertise, abortion, single payer, and more. Read Jules piece on this in the Baffler, "Doctors Who?" here: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/doctors-who-gill-peterson As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/77016924 Bea, Artie, and Phil discuss how China's zero-covid policy has been used as a political foil over the course of the pandemic and how, after years of dismissal, the moment China abandoned it those very same people began pointing to transmission in China as the impending source of a deadly new variant. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:12:29, 9 January 2023 🧬

We discuss a recent piece in the New Yorker called "The Case for Masking Forever" which presents itself as a profile of the group The People's CDC but instead, we argue, is a veritable hit piece on the idea of covid advocacy itself. As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/76685724 Bea, Artie, and Jules discuss Eric Adams' new initiative to broadly expanded involuntary hospitalization law and policy in New York, and the dark history of psychiatric institutionalization the plan appears to want to bring back. Health Communism is still 40% off for one more day (Monday January 2nd): www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:39:45, 2 January 2023 🧬

This episode was originally a patron exclusive. If you enjoy this episode, consider becoming a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod. Beatrice and Jules speak with Jasbir Puar about biopolitics, competing theorizations of disability, the difference between debility and disability, and her pathbreaking 2017 book The Right to Maim. Jasbir Puar is the author of The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (2017) and Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (2007). Health Communism is finally back in stock and currently 40% for Verso's holiday sale. Get it here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod join our Discord here: discord.com/invite/3KjKbB2

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/76391071 Bea speaks with Doron Dorfman about how social and political narratives of disabled people as "fakers" cheating the welfare system ultimately come to influence how disability is defined in law and policy. For more on some of the topics discussed in this episode, we recommend our episodes on the history of the 504 occupation, on the court case this year on gender dysphoria as a qualifying impairment under the ADA, and our recent discussion with Jasbir Puar. Health Communism is finally back in stock in the US and Canada, and currently 40% off: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:09:49, 26 December 2022 🧬

We take a look back at the year's events and the major social and political developments that worked to normalize covid in 2022. Find the companion episode to this one, “How Liberals Killed Masking,” here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/how-liberals-12-76127094 This episode was originally a patron exclusive. If you enjoy this episode, consider becoming a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod. After this episode first aired, we adapted it into a piece for The New Inquiry called “The Year the Pandemic ‘Ended.’” Find Part One (of three) here: https://thenewinquiry.com/the-year-the-pandemic-ended-part-1/ Health Communism is finally back in stock and currently 40% for Verso's holiday sale. Get it here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod join our Discord here: discord.com/invite/3KjKbB2

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/76127094 We look back at how such a basic intervention as masking during a pandemic became increasingly scrutinized, undermined, and ultimately stigmatized in mainstream discourse over the last three years. Health Communism is finally back in stock in the US and Canada, and currently 40% off: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 2:33:45, 19 December 2022 🧬

Bea and Phil speak with legal historian Karen Tani about an under-scrutinized case on the Supreme Court's docket this term, Health and Hospital Corp v. Talevski, which could have profound effects on the entire US welfare state. As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Get Health Communism here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find the Marta Russell symposium we co-organized with Karen here: https://lpeproject.org/symposia/capitalism-disability/ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch join our Discord here: discord.com/invite/3KjKbB2

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/75894329 We take a look back at the year's events and the major social and political developments that worked to normalize covid in 2022. Health Communism is finally back in stock in the US and Canada, and currently 40% off: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 3:10:29, 13 December 2022 🧬

Beatrice and Phil speak with Gabe Winant about the birth of the contemporary care economy and its relationship to deindustrialization, the shaping of the "private welfare state" in the 20th century, and resisting the temptation to look back uncritically toward the "golden age" of organized labor. This episode was originally a patron exclusive. If you enjoy this episode, consider becoming a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod. Find Gabe's book "The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America" here: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674238091 Health Communism is finally back in stock and currently 40% for Verso's holiday sale. Get it here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod join our Discord here: discord.com/invite/3KjKbB2

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/75553332 Bea talks to Amy Kapczynski about the political economy of drug development and how, from HIV/AIDS to covid, intellectual property laws support and make possible big pharma's business model at the expense of global public health. Amy Kapczynski is a Professor of Law at Yale Law School, co-director of the Law and Political Economy Project and cofounder of the Law and Political Economy blog. Health Communism is finally back in stock in the US and Canada, and currently 40% off: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:08:15, 5 December 2022 🧬

Beatrice speaks with Dan Berger about how mass incarceration has driven the spread of the pandemic, how prisons and other carceral sites have used covid as an excuse to grow more punitive, and why we need to renew calls from early in the pandemic to “free them all for public health.” You can preorder Dan’s forthcoming book, “Stayed On Freedom: The Long History of Black Power through One Family’s Journey” https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/dan-berger/stayed-on-freedom/9781541675360 As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Health Communism is finally back in stock and currently 40% for Verso's holiday sale. Get it here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch join our Discord here: discord.com/invite/3KjKbB2

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/75226518 Bea, Artie and Phil are joined by Justin Feldman to cast doubt on a recent paper claiming that the US is suffering from an "injustice of under-policing" and that the way to finally reduce mass incarceration is ... 500,000 more cops. Health Communism is finally back in stock in the US and Canada, and currently 40% off: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:11:57, 28 November 2022 🧬

Beatrice, Artie, and Jules discuss the Biden administration's recently announced fall covid plan, the rather lazy recycling of old lines to justify covid normalization, and the recent uptick in claims that pandemic mitigations were worse than the virus itself because of so-called "immunity debt." (Episode begins at 2:00 after introduction.) As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Health Communism is finally back in stock and currently 40% for Verso's holiday sale. Get it here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch join our Discord here: discord.com/invite/3KjKbB2

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/74944636 Beatrice and Jules speak with Jasbir Puar about biopolitics, competing theorizations of disability, the difference between debility and disability, and her pathbreaking 2017 book The Right to Maim. Jasbir Puar is the author of The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (2017) and Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (2007). Health Communism is finally back in stock in the US and Canada, and currently 40% off: https://www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 2:19:28, 21 November 2022 🧬

Beatrice, Artie, and Abby discuss the way long covid is portrayed in the media and the mainstream press, and the frequently used tropes that focus on long covid as a question of economic productivity and "spoiled identity." As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Get Health Communism here: tinyurl.com/healthcommunism Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch join our Discord here: discord.com/invite/3KjKbB2

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/74656039 Beatrice speaks with Minh-ha T. Pham about the extractive dynamics of the global garment industry, what happened to garment workers in the global south in the early days of the pandemic, and understanding the need to end sweatshop labor through an abolitionist lens. Minh-ha T. Pham is an Associate Professor in the Graduate Program in Media Studies at Pratt Institute, and is the author of ”Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Social Media’s Influence on Fashion, Ethics, and Property” (2022). Her essay “A World Without Sweatshops: Abolition Not Reform” is included in the recently released anthology from Haymarket, “Abolition Feminisms: Organizing, Survival and Transformative Practice." Find Bea and Artie's new book Health Communism here: tinyurl.com/healthcommunism Runtime 1:07:23, 14 November 2022 🧬

Beatrice speaks with Jessica Phoenix Sylvia about prison book bans, how simple it is for prison officials to administratively withhold basic needs, and the necessity of publishing incarcerated writers. Jessica Phoenix Sylvia is an Empowerment Avenue social justice writer, abolition theorist, and community organizer. She is one of the contributors to the recently published book “The Press In Prison,” (Haymarket Books & Scalawag Media). She is currently working with the Study and Struggle program, and she is the author of a recent piece in PEN America called “Prison Book Bans, Protect Mass Incarceration.” Mentioned in this episode: https://www.empowermentave.com https://pen.org/prison-book-bans-protect-mass-incarceration https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1993-the-press-in-prison https://www.studyandstruggle.com As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Find available copies of Health Communism here: tinyurl.com/healthcommunism Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch join our Discord here: discord.com/invite/3KjKbB2

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/74364392 Beatrice, Abby, and Artie formally decline Emily Oster’s request for a “pandemic amnesty.” But first, we check in on a few recent statements out of the CDC minimizing the impact of covid and leaning into “immunity debt.” Find Bea and Artie's new book Health Communism here: tinyurl.com/healthcommunism Runtime 1:16:54, 7 November 2022 🧬

This episode was originally a patron exclusive. If you enjoy this episode consider supporting the show at patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice speaks with Danya Qato about the political economy of health in Palestine, and how to understand the intersection of the pandemic and colonial occupation. Danya Qato is an associate professor of epidemiology and health services research based in Baltimore, Maryland. Find available copies of Health Communism here: tinyurl.com/healthcommunism Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch join our Discord here: https://discord.gg/V9DECnM As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/74043634 Beatrice, Artie, and Jules discuss the Biden administration's recently announced fall covid plan, the rather lazy recycling of old lines to justify covid normalization, and the recent uptick in claims that pandemic mitigations were worse than the virus itself because of so-called "immunity debt." Find Bea and Artie's new book Health Communism here: tinyurl.com/healthcommunism Runtime 1:21:44, 31 October 2022 🧬

Phil reads "The Bungalow House" by Thomas Ligotti. As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Find available copies of Health Communism here: tinyurl.com/healthcommunism Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch join our Discord here: discord.com/invite/3KjKbB2

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/73720650 Beatrice speaks with Sophie Lewis about working toward the de-privatization of care, what people who dismiss "family abolition" miss about the concept by not engaging with it, Emily Oster's book "The Family Firm," and more. Find Sophie's new book Abolish the Family here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/4075-abolish-the-family Find Bea and Artie's new book Health Communism here: https://tinyurl.com/healthcommunism Runtime 1:31:40, 24 October 2022 🧬

Health Communism is out this week! Find available copies here: https://tinyurl.com/healthcommunism Beatrice and Artie talk about their new book Health Communism: why they wrote it, how they hope it can be used, and why in the end, health is such a fundamentally important site of political struggle. We also read two big excerpts from the chapter "SURPLUS." As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod for access to a new patron-exclusive episode every Monday. Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch join our Discord here: discord.com/invite/3KjKbB2

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/73428796 Health Communism is out TOMORROW—this Tuesday, October 18th! If you haven't preordered a copy, please do so here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Beatrice and Phil speak with Gabe Winant about the birth of the contemporary care economy and its relationship to deindustrialization, the shaping of the "private welfare state" in the 20th century, and resisting the temptation to look back uncritically toward the "golden age" of organized labor. Find Gabe's book "The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America" here: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674238091 Runtime 1:24:22, 17 October 2022 🧬

We discuss the meaning and history of "the social determinants of health"—all of the social and political factors that impact individual and population health beyond what healthcare traditionally focuses on—and what becomes possible when we recognize that health is political. This episode was originally a patron exclusive. If you enjoy this episode consider supporting the show at patreon.com/deathpanelpod TRANSCRIPT: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/social-determinants-of-health Pre-order HEALTH COMMUNISM here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch join our Discord here: discord.com/invite/3KjKbB2 *Note: this episode was released prior to the official announcement that Abby Cartus and Jules Gill-Peterson were joining the Death Panel, as a result in this episode Abby is introduced as a "guest"

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/73128522 Beatrice speaks with Dean Spade about administrative violence, neoliberal co-optation through 'inclusion,' what separates mutual aid from charity, and his book "Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law." Find Normal Life here: https://www.dukeupress.edu/normal-life-revised Health Communism is out in just ONE WEEK (October 18th) from Verso Books! Pre-order your copy here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Runtime 1:42:24, 10 October 2022 🧬

Beatrice speaks with Ruth Wilson Gilmore about how to understand the concept of "the state," the capitalist state's capacity of organized abandonment, and the extraction of time. Order her book Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3785-abolition-geography Ruth Wilson Gilmore is Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, and American Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where she is also Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics. TRANSCRIPT: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/organized-abandonment-with-ruth-wilson-gilmore Pre-order HEALTH COMMUNISM here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch join our Discord here: discord.com/invite/3KjKbB2

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/72838142 Seth Prins joins us to discuss his research on the school-to-prison pipeline and the impact of carcerality on schools, public health, and our society. Seth Prins is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. Health Communism is out in just TWO WEEKS (October 18th) from Verso Books! Pre-order your copy here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Runtime 1:08:14, 3 October 2022 🧬

Bea, Artie, and Phil speak with Nate Holdren about how to understand the pandemic response as a site of class struggle, latent imaginaries of the state, and the power dynamics at play in the Biden administration's plans to restructure the CDC. Pre-order HEALTH COMMUNISM here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Read Nate's (and all of our) contributions to the Harvard Petrie-Flom Center's "Health Law and Policy in an Era of Mass Suffering" series here: https://blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2022/09/19/pandemic-nihilism-social-murder-and-the-banality-of-evil/ As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch join our Discord here: discord.com/invite/3KjKbB2

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/72510930 Beatrice, Artie, and Abby discuss Vinay Prasad's covid advocacy as an archetype for a particular type of interpretation of the politics of health, and why his arguments seem to sometimes work on liberals, "progressives," and even some on the left. Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book, Health Communism, out October 18th from Verso Books. Pre-order Health Communism here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Runtime 1:15:52, 26 September 2022 🧬

Bea, Artie, Phil, and Abby discuss Joe Biden's recent statement that "the pandemic is over," what it means for the US pandemic response, and the many flawed assumptions that have led people to make similar claims in recent weeks. As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book! Pre-order HEALTH COMMUNISM here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch join our Discord here: discord.com/invite/3KjKbB2

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/72205167 Beatrice speaks with epidemiologist and HIV/AIDS researcher Keletso Makofane about state failures in the monkeypox response, efforts to organize around it, and the inside story of what activists were told about why delivering monkeypox vaccines was taking so long vs. the reality. Keletso Makofane is a social network epidemiologist who studies how human relationships shape population health, a Health and Human Rights Fellow at Harvard’s FXB Center, and one of the Principal Investigators of the RESPND-MI (MPX NYC) Study Team. Take the survey Keletso talks about here: https://www.mpxnyc.app/ Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book, Health Communism, out October 18th from Verso Books. Pre-order Health Communism here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Runtime 1:16:41, 19 September 2022 🧬

After a big announcement, Beatrice, Artie, and Jules Gill-Peterson discuss a recent court ruling that gender dysphoria qualifies for protection under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the promises and perils of this framework, and the histories of both "gender dysphoria" as a term and the ADA's deliberate exclusion of trans identity from its text. As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book! Pre-order HEALTH COMMUNISM here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch join our Discord here: discord.com/invite/3KjKbB2

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/71889859 We discuss the Biden administration's increasingly open embrace of pushing covid vaccines to the private market and how the updated booster campaign is going so far. Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book, Health Communism, out October 18th from Verso Books. Pre-order Health Communism here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Runtime 1:02:21, 12 September 2022 🧬

Beatrice speaks to organizers Mon M. and Diana Joy about resisting proposals to open a "feminist jail" in New York, carceral humanism, and the difference between decarceration and abolition. Mon M. is an abolitionist organizer based in New York and the author of a recent op-ed arguing against so-called “humane” jails published in Teen Vogue called: ‘Feminist’ Jail Proposals Contribute to Mass Incarceration.” Diana Joy is a prison industrial complex and coercive psych abolitionist who organizes with Survived and Punished New York. As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book! Pre-order HEALTH COMMUNISM here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch join our Discord here: discord.com/invite/3KjKbB2

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/71558455 Recorded live as part of the 2022 Socialism Conference, Bea and Artie speak for the first time about some of the contents of their forthcoming book Health Communism, featuring an exclusive excerpt from the book and remastered audio. (This teaser includes only the main talk; the excerpt is a special bonus for patrons). Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book, Health Communism, out October 18th from Verso Books. Pre-order Health Communism here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Runtime 1:34:22, 5 September 2022 🧬

Abby Cartus joins us to discuss the Biden administration's two recently released plans on long covid, and the total inadequacy of the US social safety net to catch the many people newly disabled by the pandemic. As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book! Pre-order HEALTH COMMUNISM here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch join our Discord here: discord.com/invite/3KjKbB2

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/71217378 Beatrice speaks to Megan Linton about the past and present of institutionalization in Canada, the impact of the ongoing pandemic on the population in long term care and nursing homes, Canada's medical assistance in dying program, and Megan's documentary podcast series Invisible Institutions, which just wrapped its first season. Megan Q. Linton is a writer, researcher and doctoral student who studies and challenges the political economy of institutionalization in Canada, and the producer, writer, and host of the documentary podcast series “Invisible Institutions.” Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book, Health Communism, out October 18th from Verso Books. Pre-order Health Communism here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Runtime 1:33:29, 29 August 2022 🧬

Beatrice and Phil speak with Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò about the politics of "getting a seat at the table" and his book Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else). Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University, and the author of the books “Reconsidering Reparations” and “Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)”. Find Olúfẹ́mi's book here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1867-elite-capture As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book! Pre-order HEALTH COMMUNISM here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch join our Discord here: discord.com/invite/3KjKbB2

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/70892312 Beatrice speaks with Danya Qato about the political economy of health in Palestine, and how to understand the intersection of the pandemic and colonial occupation. Danya Qato is an associate professor of epidemiology and health services research based in Baltimore, Maryland. Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book, Health Communism, out October 18th from Verso Books. Pre-order Health Communism here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Runtime 1:31:46, 22 August 2022 🧬

Justin Feldman joins us to talk through the latest downgrade to the CDC's covid guidelines and Ashish Jha's statement this week that the Biden administration is aiming for covid vaccines and therapeutics to be kicked to the private market starting in the fall. As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book! Pre-order HEALTH COMMUNISM here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch join our Discord here: discord.com/invite/3KjKbB2 episode transcript: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/who-has-the-tools-with-justin-feldman

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/70569938 Abby Cartus joins us to discuss the meaning and history of "the social determinants of health"—all of the social and political factors that impact individual and population health beyond what healthcare traditionally focuses on—and what becomes possible when we recognize that health is political. Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book, Health Communism, out October 18th from Verso Books. Pre-order Health Communism here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Runtime 1:13:38, 15 August 2022 🧬

Nathan Tankus joins us to talk about inflation: what is it, what are the issues with how we measure it, and why do mainstream economists think austerity measures are the only way to tackle it? We also briefly discuss the Inflation Reduction Act. Subscribe to Nathan's newsletter at crisesnotes.com As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book! Pre-order HEALTH COMMUNISM here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch join our Discord here: discord.com/invite/3KjKbB2

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/70203869 Bea and Artie speak with Sophie Lewis about their recent writing on the post-Roe abortion bans and reproduction as labor. Pre-order Sophie's forthcoming book "Abolish the Family" here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/4075-abolish-the-family Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book, Health Communism, out October 18th from Verso Books. Pre-order Health Communism here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Runtime 1:10:48, 08 August 2022 🧬

We talk to Beans Velocci about the early history of medicalized transition in the US, how the earliest clinical guidelines were largely written with physician indemnity in mind, and the harms of the perpetual myth that trans and nonbinary people are a novel phenomenon. Beans Velocci is a historian of sex, science, and classification, and an Assistant Professor in History and Sociology of Science and Core Faculty in Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Read Beans' piece, "Standards of Care: Uncertainty and Risk in Harry Benjamin's Transsexual Classifications" in the November 2021 issue of Transgender Studies Quarterly. As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book! Pre-order HEALTH COMMUNISM here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch join our Discord here: discord.com/invite/3KjKbB2

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/69915341 We discuss a new framing in media that everyone has already had covid, including the Wall Street Journal's "Think You've Never Had Covid-19? Think Again" and The Atlantic's "America Is Running Out of ‘COVID Virgins.’" Then we look at what we've learned in recent days about Biden's covid diagnosis and how covid response coordinator Ashish Jha worked to sell it as "a success story." Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book, Health Communism, out October 18th from Verso Books. Pre-order Health Communism here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Runtime 1:04:54, 01 August 2022 🧬

With pediatric covid vaccination levels stalled and no big programs on the horizon to change that, Bea speaks to Dr. Jonathan Howard about the figures who have stepped in to fill that void with a series of false claims about vaccine side effects in children. Read Dr. Howard's latest piece in Science Based Medicine here: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/framing/ As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book! Pre-order HEALTH COMMUNISM here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch join our Discord here: discord.com/invite/3KjKbB2 Find the Kaiser Family Foundation report Bea cites in this episode here: "COVID-19 Vaccination Rates Among Children Under 5 Have Peaked and Are Decreasing Just Weeks Into Their Eligibility" https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/covid-19-vaccination-rates-among-children-under-5-have-peaked-and-are-decreasing-just-weeks-into-their-eligibility/

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/69569086 We discuss Biden's covid diagnosis, statements made about it by administration officials Ashish Jha and Rochelle Walensky, and why so many people seem to think we've hit an equilibrium on covid deaths. Finally, we visit a cursed new take from Emily Oster on covid reinfections. Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book, Health Communism, out October 18th from Verso Books. Pre-order Health Communism here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Runtime 1:15:49, 25 July 2022 🧬

We discuss why so many cities and states are ignoring the CDC's community level system, the controversy over the return of LA's mask mandate, and Josh Barro's substack tirade against "team covid forever" and the return of covid mitigations. As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book! Pre-order HEALTH COMMUNISM here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch join our Discord here: discord.com/invite/3KjKbB2

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/69260827 We discuss Glenn Kessler's dubious attempt to fact check the story of a 10-year old forced to travel out of state for an abortion, and what it says about the lengths the media are willing to go to reassure people that things aren't actually that bad. Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book, Health Communism, out October 18th from Verso Books. Pre-order Health Communism here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Runtime 1:03:46, 18 July 2022 🧬

We discuss a new refrain that pushing for a return of pandemic mitigations is "moralizing" even as the BA.5 wave takes hold. But first, we check in on the Biden administration's inability to meet the moment on abortion rights, and one official's claim that codifying Roe is something for "activists who have been consistently out of step with the Democratic Party." As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book! Pre-order HEALTH COMMUNISM here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch join our Discord here: discord.com/invite/3KjKbB2

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/68967375 Libby Watson joins us for a post-mortem on the pandemic subsidies for COBRA health insurance, one of the most needlessly convoluted covid aid programs, and, perhaps unsurprisingly, an absolute trainwreck. Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book, Health Communism, out October 18th from Verso Books. Pre-order Health Communism here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Runtime 1:15:50, 11 July 2022 🧬

We speak with Silky Shah about the Trump-era border restrictions the Biden administration has held onto, including deporting migrants under the pretense of keeping covid out of the US. Silky is the executive director of Detention Watch Network. You can follow her @silkys13 This episode was originally a patron exclusive posted May 16th. If you enjoy this episode consider supporting the show at patreon.com/deathpanelpod Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book! Pre-order HEALTH COMMUNISM here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch join our Discord here: discord.com/invite/3KjKbB2 As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/68638860 We're off this week, so for today's episode we've curated a selection of three of our favorite conversations about Emily Oster, showing the arc of her influence over the school reopening debate from 2020 onward. Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book, Health Communism, out October 18th from Verso Books. Pre-order Health Communism here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Runtime 1:57:12, 4 July 2022 🧬

With Roe v. Wade officially struck down by the Supreme Court, we speak with Melissa Gira Grant, Charlotte Shane, and Abby Cartus about how to react to this moment and where to go from here. This episode was originally a patron exclusive posted June 27th. If you enjoy this episode consider supporting the show at patreon.com/deathpanelpod As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book! Pre-order HEALTH COMMUNISM here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch join our Discord here: discord.com/invite/3KjKbB2

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/68332894 With Roe v. Wade officially struck down by the Supreme Court, we speak with Melissa Gira Grant, Charlotte Shane, and Abby Cartus about how to react to this moment and where to go from here. Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book, Health Communism, out October 18th from Verso Books. Pre-order Health Communism here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Runtime 1:15:29, 27 June 2022 🧬

Jules Gill-Peterson and Charlie Markbreiter join us to discuss Emily Bazelon's recent controversial New York Times Magazine cover story "The Battle Over Gender Therapy," its harmful and historically inaccurate portrayal of medical transition, and why liberals are so ready to embrace gatekeeping in trans healthcare. TRANSCRIPT: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/panic-at-the-gender-clinic-w-jules-gill-peterson-and-charlie-markbreiter-062322 Pre-order Charlie's first book here: https://www.kenningeditions.com/shop/gossip-girl-fanfic-novella/ Buy Jules' book, "Histories of the Transgender Child," here: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/histories-of-the-transgender-child As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book! Pre-order HEALTH COMMUNISM here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch join our Discord here: discord.com/invite/3KjKbB2

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/68028713 We discuss the death of the TRIPS waiver last week at the World Trade Organization, then take a close look at a recent interview given by White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Ashish Jha to get a sense of some of the troubling stances that may be brewing inside the Biden administration. Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book, Health Communism, out October 18th from Verso Books. Pre-order Health Communism here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Runtime 1:15:51, 20 June 2022 🧬

Abby Cartus joins us to discuss David Leonhardt's "Covid and Race," in which he made the bold (and inaccurate) claim in the New York Times that "covid’s racial gaps have narrowed and, more recently, even flipped." But first, we discuss a report that the Biden administration privately discussed what an acceptable number of ongoing daily covid deaths would be. As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book! Pre-order HEALTH COMMUNISM here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch join our Discord here: discord.com/invite/3KjKbB2

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/67732744 Beatrice speaks with Gregg Gonsalves about the recent monkeypox outbreaks in multiple countries, how global public health and healthcare priorities have left us in a politically vulnerable position to respond to outbreaks, and his work with ACT UP and Treatment Action Group. Gregg Gonsalves is the codirector of the Global Health Justice Partnership and an associate professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health. Read Gregg's piece, "Monkeypox Is Not a Gay Disease" here: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/monkeypox-hiv-lgbt-pride/ Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book, Health Communism, out October 18th from Verso Books. Pre-order Health Communism here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Runtime 1:10:45, 13 June 2022 🧬

We speak with epidemiologist Dr. Theresa Chapple about how seemingly everyone became convinced that you can't catch covid outdoors, common misconceptions about the pandemic driven by an overwhelming focus on individual risk assessment, and lessons from her work in the field during the first two years of covid. Follow Dr. Chapple @Theresa_Chapple As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book! Pre-order HEALTH COMMUNISM here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch join our Discord here: discord.com/invite/3KjKbB2 episode transcript: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/outdoor-transmission-theresa-chapple

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/67438083 We discuss how mask mandates rapidly went from an obvious pandemic intervention to something even many public health experts now seem reluctant to stand behind, including the role David Leonhardt has played in minimizing the impact of masking and his recent piece "Why Masks Work, but Mandates Haven’t." Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book, Health Communism, out October 18th from Verso Books. Pre-order Health Communism here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Runtime 1:05:32, 6 June 2022 🧬

Beatrice speaks with Tracy Rosenthal about the policy frameworks that create and police houselessness and their recent piece in the New Republic, "Inside LA’s Homeless Industrial Complex." Read Tracy's piece here: https://newrepublic.com/article/166383/los-angeles-echo-park-homeless-industrial-complex As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book! Pre-order HEALTH COMMUNISM here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch join our Discord here: discord.com/invite/3KjKbB2

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/67101110 Beatrice speaks with Tracy Rosenthal about the policy frameworks that create and police houselessness and their recent piece in the New Republic, "Inside LA’s Homeless Industrial Complex." Tracy Rosenthal is a co-founder of the L.A. Tenants Union. Their first book, Abolish Rent, written with Leonardo Vilchis, is forthcoming from Verso. Follow them @two__evils Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book, Health Communism, out October 18th from Verso Books. Pre-order Health Communism here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Runtime 1:08:58, 30 May 2022 🧬

We speak with Nate Holdren about Friedrich Engels' concept of "social murder" and the social and political processes that have enabled the pandemic to be portrayed as if nothing more could be done. Read Nate's piece "Depoliticizing Social Murder in the COVID-19 Pandemic" here: https://blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2022/03/21/depoliticizing-social-murder-covid-pandemic/ TRANSCRIPT: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/social-murder-with-nate-holdren As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book! Pre-order HEALTH COMMUNISM here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch join our Discord here: discord.com/invite/3KjKbB2

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/66802133 We discuss how the concept of herd immunity has been interpreted over the course of the pandemic and what it may mean for us now, in light of a recent paper co-authored by Anthony Fauci titled "The Concept of Classical Herd Immunity May Not Apply to COVID-19." Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book, Health Communism, out October 18th from Verso Books. Pre-order Health Communism here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Runtime 1:09:15, 23 May 2022 🧬

We discuss the one thing everyone can seemingly agree on: the US is in a new wave, and no one knows quite how big it really is. Then we revisit the CDC's "community level" metrics, and discuss new reports that the White House is preparing to have to ration vaccines. As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book! Pre-order HEALTH COMMUNISM here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch join our Discord here: discord.com/invite/3KjKbB2

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/66509165 We speak with Silky Shah about the Trump-era border restrictions the Biden administration has held onto, including deporting migrants under the pretense of keeping covid out of the US. Silky Shah is executive director of Detention Watch Network. Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book, Health Communism, out October 18th from Verso Books. Pre-order Health Communism here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Runtime 1:17:34, 16 May 2022 🧬