Terry Gross

Dr. Peter Hotez is part of a team working to develop a low-cost COVID vaccine that could be distributed globally. “Vaccines are coming,” he says. “We have to get everybody through to the other side.”

Atlantic journalist Alexis Madrigal says millions of at-home saliva tests for COVID could be the key to a safe reopening — even if the tests are less accurate than the traditional PCR tests.

In The Turnaway Study, Diana Greene Foster shares research conducted over 10 years with about 1,000 women who had or were denied abortions, tracking impacts on mental, physical and economic health.

Chesa Boudin’s radical leftist parents were imprisoned when he was a toddler. Now he’s working to reduce the inmate population in San Francisco — and worrying about his dad, who remains in prison.

Trauma surgeon David Nott has volunteered in war zones and disaster areas around the world. Now he’s treating COVID-19 patients in London. He calls the pandemic a “disaster zone for the whole world.”

Atlantic writer Ed Yong warned of a global pandemic two years ago. He says scientists are still working to understand how COVID-19 travels through air — and whether more of us should be wearing masks.

In 1990, BJ Miller was electrocuted by a train. That accident during college took most of his limbs, but the event and his recovery inspired him to pursue a career as a palliative care physician.

A new documentary tells the story of America’s first inpatient unit dedicated to the care of people with AIDS. Nurse Cliff Morrison helped create 5B in 1983, and worked on it with Dr. Paul Volberding.

Physician Louise Aronson treats patients who are in their 60s — as well as those who are older than 100. She writes about changing approaches to elder health care in the book, Elderhood.