Transmission
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.
- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 21 minutes
- Episodes
- 36
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2022
New Podcast: The Walk Home
KNKX Public Radio and The Seattle Times want to share a new podcast: The Walk Home. Listen to the first episode here. To get new episodes as they come out, look for The Walk Home wherever you get you…
00:32:18 |
Wed 07 Sep 2022
Episode 35: Turned Around
A year ago, Dr. Nick Mark worried he might not survive the pandemic. He's a critical-care doctor in Seattle who performs risky procedures, like intubations, on some of the sickest COVID-19 patients. …
00:28:00 |
Tue 22 Jun 2021
Episode 34: Silver Linings
Now that most students are back in school in the Northwest, there are a lot of feelings going around.
00:28:00 |
Thu 22 Apr 2021
Episode 33: Coming Back to Life
On the day I meet 86-year-old Chris Swanson inside her room at Horizon House in Seattle’s First Hill neighborhood, it feels like a party.
00:10:21 |
Wed 07 Apr 2021
Episode 32: The Vaccine Hunters
When 65-year-old Bonnie McGuire was vaccinated earlier this year for COVID-19, a huge weight of worry disappeared in an instant.
00:27:39 |
Tue 09 Mar 2021
Episode 31: The Long Winter
Emergencies do something to our brains. A few months after a catastrophe, people find themselves more irritable and less able to concentrate. Rates of depression and anxiety rise. Same with substance…
00:36:49 |
Wed 10 Feb 2021
Episode 30: Words Matter
Living during a global pandemic is inherently stressful. Stress can negatively impact how we make decisions.
00:12:08 |
Thu 21 Jan 2021
Episode 29: The Slow Vaccine Rollout
It’s been about one month since the first coronavirus vaccine arrived in Washington state. Residents, some of them in tears, watched a nurse receive the first injection. This event was supposed to he…
00:14:39 |
Fri 15 Jan 2021
Episode 28: Socially Distanced Santa
The beard is real. The suit is red. And he's separated from his guests by several feet and plexiglass. We meet Santas intent on creating memories, even in a pandemic. Note: This episode is especially…
00:08:13 |
Thu 24 Dec 2020
Episode 27: Making the Rent
The coronavirus pandemic is testing our society’s safety net in ways we never imagined. There are millions of people across the country and thousands in Washington state who are unable to keep up wit…
00:35:28 |
Wed 16 Dec 2020
Episode 26: The COVID College Experience
College, in the minds of many incoming freshmen, is about so much more than education. It’s supposed to be a formative experience that creates lifelong memories and lifelong friendships, an adventure…
00:16:45 |
Wed 25 Nov 2020
Episode 25: Therapies in the Works
Things are getting a little scary out there. The number of new coronavirus cases is on the rise. Hospital beds are filling up across the country. Deaths are climbing. Sobering stuff.
00:16:27 |
Thu 29 Oct 2020
Episode 24: What We Know
Now that we are several months into this pandemic, we are entering a phase that many doctors and researchers are worried about. Let’s take a look at where things stand.
00:17:16 |
Fri 02 Oct 2020
Episode 23: Back to School, Sort of...
In March of this year, as the novel coronavirus started to take hold of the region, students and teachers were notified that in person school was over and remote learning would get underway. At first…
00:33:50 |
Fri 04 Sep 2020
Episode 22: The Race for a Vaccine
It’s been more than five months since the nation’s first novel coronavirus death happened, right here in the Seattle area.
00:25:13 |
Thu 13 Aug 2020
Episode 21: The Long Recovery
Tammy Edwards survived COVID-19. It was miserable, but she made it. She had hoped that once the virus ran its course, she could then get back to her life and her work as a nurse in Tacoma.
00:18:03 |
Fri 17 Jul 2020
Episode 20: Lockup to Lockdown
Imagine getting out of prison after almost two decades, and being released into … this.
00:13:55 |
Thu 18 Jun 2020
Episode 19: The Unpaid
Since the COVID-19 pandemic landed in Washington, the economic fallout has driven more than a million people in the state to apply for unemployment insurance.
00:16:45 |
Fri 12 Jun 2020
Episode 18: How You Holding Up?
A lot of us this year have gotten used to relying on computer models for projections of how many new COVID-19 cases we can expect, or when the economy might start to rebound. But those models can’t t…
00:27:31 |
Wed 10 Jun 2020
Episode 17: Not My First Pandemic
We are a country wracked by illness, by economic crisis, and by tears in our social fabric that have existed all along, but are too gaping to ignore, once again.
00:25:29 |
Tue 02 Jun 2020
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