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Transmission is a podcast about life at the heart of an epidemic. As the nation copes with the unfolding Coronavirus pandemic, hear what it’s like in the Pacific Northwest, at the vanguard of the COVID-19 outbreak.
An ICU doctor feared catching COVID while intubating; your tidy pandemic timeline may need a footnote.
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A Tacoma death story moves from public protest to the intimate questions a sister carries about her brother.
A Tacoma killing comes into focus on downtown streets during a late May 2020 protest, where Monet Carter-Mixon asks marchers what they know about something that happened in the city.
A measured pandemic follow-up that sets a changed ICU beside one family's work of carrying on.
Transmission returns to the pandemic after its first shock has passed, tracking the change through Nick Mark's ICU work and Antonia Zamorano's family food business.
A doctor and a restaurant owner trace how pandemic crisis settled into daily responsibility.
Transmission looks back across a year of distance, following people still living inside the pandemic's aftermath. Nick Mark, a critical care doctor working across Seattle hospitals, describes a grim shift from the early fear of putting COVID patients on breathing tubes to a…
A thoughtful look at classroom return, teacher trust, and racial stereotypes in school life.
Transmission hands this episode to Oregon Public Broadcasting's Class of 2025, using the return to in-person classrooms to ask what school feels like for students who are not necessarily eager to go back.
A thoughtful look at classroom trust, racial stereotypes, and why school can feel complicated for some students.
Transmission considers the return to classrooms through students who are not necessarily eager to leave remote school behind. By turning to Oregon Public Broadcasting's Class of 2025, the episode follows Raishan's trust in certain teachers, then broadens that experience through…
Oncology evidence translated into clinical decisions.
Critical care evidence, carefully talked through.
Clinical research, reduced to its practical signal.
Monet Carter-Mixon goes to a Tacoma protest in May 2020 asking marchers whether they saw anything about her brother Manuel Ellis, who died after a police encounter on a Tacoma street corner three months earlier.
Transmission's final episode follows Will James and Jennifer Wing as Seattle moves from the March 2020 shutdowns toward June 30 reopening, with 70% of people older than 12 now fully vaccinated and some days in single digits for new COVID-19 cases.
Transmission's final episode returns to Seattle doctors Nick Mark and Helen Chu, who describe COVID-19 shifting from emergency mode toward a seasonal pattern rather than disappearing.
Transmission hands off to Oregon Public Broadcasting’s Class of 2025, a series following 27 middle school students as they move toward high school.
Transmission turns to OPB's Class of 2025 to follow 27 middle school students and contrast in-person school with remote learning for Black students at Ron Russell Middle School.
This episode explores the rapid development of a COVID-19 vaccine in Seattle, highlighting the first human trial and the new technology behind it.
This episode explores a mathematical model forecasting mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in Washington state.
This episode explores a mathematical model forecasting mental health impacts of the pandemic and social unrest in Washington state.
A podcast exploring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on family planning and vulnerable communities.