On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the controversial vaccination. The United States has ordered 195 million doses, and public health officials have to make tough choices about who should be vaccinated. Some states are mandating the vaccine for health workers. Are you planning to take the vaccine?
Join us live at 11 a.m. or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How should we balance the risks of an epidemic versus individual choice? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.
Guests:
Art Reingold, professor and head of the Division of Epidemiology at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health
Christian Sandrock, assistant professor of clinical medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the UC Davis School of Medicine
Click to Listen: What Do You Want to Know About the Swine Flu Vaccine?
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
What Do You Want to Know About the Swine Flu Vaccine?
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Your Call 050709 How does this Swine Flu outbreak compare to others?
How does the current Swine Flu outbreak compare to others in history? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Philip Alcabes, author of Dread: How Fear and Fantasy Have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to Avian Flu, and Marc Schenker, chair of Department of Public Health Sciences at University of California, Davis. When it comes to an epidemic, can fear be as dangerous as disease? You can join us by calling in or by emailing feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. How should public health and the news media spread information, without spreading panic? What should be done to improve public health? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.
Guests:
Philip Alcabes, author of Dread: How Fear and Fantasy Have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to Avian Flu. He is associate professor of urban public health at Hunter College of the City University of New York.
Marc Schenker is a professor of Medicine and Chair of Dept. of Public Health Sciences at University of California, Davis.
Click to Listen: How does this Swine Flu outbreak compare to others?
Friday, May 1, 2009
Your Call 050109 Media Roundtable
On the next Your Call it's our Friday media roundtable where we discuss how the news was covered in the American media. This week, the World Heath Organization said a swine flu pandemic was "imminent," President Obama marked his 100th day in office and Sen. Arlen Specter defected, pushing the Democratic majority closer to a filibuster-proof 60 votes. We'll be joined by Aaron Glantz, author of The War Comes Home, Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! and Will Bunch from the Philadelphia Daily News. Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. Where did you see the best reporting this week and where did it fall short? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.
Guests:
Aaron Glantz in San Francisco
Author of The War Comes Home: Washington's Battle Against America's Veterans
Amy Goodman
Host of Democracy Now! She joins us from the middle of her 70 city tour across the country supporting community stations
Will Bunch in Philadelphia
Writes the Attytood column for the Philadelphia Daily News and author of Tear Down This Myth: How the Reagan Legacy Has Distorted Our Politics and Haunts Our Future
Click to Listen: Media Roundtable