Viral Load
The disease podcast for a diseased world! Hosts: Brett Bayles (a professor) & Andy Pupa (not a professor) gleefully explore the weird and wacky world of diseases on a changing planet.
Viral Load
Viral Particle: The Runaways
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Brett Bayles (a professor) / Andy Pupa (not a professor)
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Episode 32
What do you get when you cross totalitarianism with a pandemic? If you guessed "one helluva story", we owe you a La Croix! COVID-19 has finally arrived in North Korea...or has it? Join Andy and Brett as they traverse the demilitarized zone, on this week's extra-large viral particle.
References:
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/25/world/asia/north-korea-coronavirus-kim-jong-un.html
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/31/world/asia/north-korea-coronavirus.html
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/28/world/asia/north-korea-defector-coronavirus.html
- https://ourworldindata.org/covid-exemplar-south-korea
- https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-53541730
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/27/world/asia/north-korea-defector-coronavirus.html
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/28/world/asia/north-korea-defector-coronavirus.html
- https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2019/country-chapters/north-korea#
- https://www.history.com/topics/korea/korean-war
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/13/soldier-shot-by-north-korean-guards-as-he-defects-to-south