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Transmission

by KNKX Public Radio

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.

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Episodes

  1. 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 your podcasts or visit thewalkhomepodcast.org.

  2. 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. He and his colleagues updated their wills and made sure their life insurance premiums were paid...

  3. Episode 34: Silver Linings

    Now that most students are back in school in the Northwest, there are a lot of feelings going around.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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 use and suicide. This has been observed in disaster after disaster.

  7. Episode 30: Words Matter

    Living during a global pandemic is inherently stressful. Stress can negatively impact how we make decisions.

  8. 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 herald the beginning of the end of the coronavirus pandemic.

  9. 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 appealing to those who appreciate the sounds of squealing children.

  10. 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 with their rent.

  11. 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 that sets the stage for the rest of your life.

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. 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, everyone thought the move to online learning would be temporary, but it wasn’t.

  15. 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.

  16. 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.

  17. Episode 20: Lockup to Lockdown

    Imagine getting out of prison after almost two decades, and being released into … this.

  18. 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.

  19. 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 tell us how we’re going to feel, or how lockdown and grief and social breakdown will change the way...

  20. 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.

  21. Episode 16: Family Planning

    In many ways, “family planning” is a misnomer. The “planning” part only goes so far. Even with all the tools at your disposal, a lot of it is mostly out of your control and up to chance. A million little things have to go exactly right to bring life into the world.

  22. Episode 15: The Hardest Hit

    As the COVID-19 pandemic has unfolded, some clear patterns have emerged. One is that people of color are being affected by this virus at higher rates than white people.

  23. Episode 14: Come To My Window

    COVID-era isolation affects all of us. And for people with special needs, it brings all sorts of particular challenges, many that can’t be solved with a Zoom call.

  24. Episode 13: Finding Joy

    There is a lot to worry about right now: our jobs and our health. How will we be able to make next month’s rent or mortgage payment? Then there is the bigger question — will life ever be the same again?

  25. Episode 12: Telling Stories

    Telling stories live is both the oldest form of entertainment, probably, and a newish thriving art form. In the Pacific Northwest there are a whole range of storytelling series and events. These usually happen in a smallish venue, maybe a coffee shop.

  26. Episode 11: The Counterpunch

    We explore the power of the antibody — a protein that our blood cells make when our body encounters a virus.

  27. Episode 10: Learning As We Go

    Today’s episode: Learning as we go.

  28. Episode 9: Confronting Mortality

    Today’s episode: Confronting Mortality.

  29. Episode 8: The Virus-Eye View

    Today's episode: The Virus-Eye View.

  30. Episode 7: Saying Goodbye

    Today’s episode: Saying Goodbye.

  31. Episode 6: Getting Creative

    There’s a bunch of psychological research out there that suggests constraints — having your choices limited — actually promotes creativity.

  32. Episode 5: Stretched

    When the novel coronavirus made its way to the United States, it landed here, in the Pacific Northwest. Transmission is a podcast about life at the heart of an epidemic.

  33. Episode 4: Lessons Learned

    When the novel coronavirus made its way to the United States, it landed here, in the Pacific Northwest. Transmission is a podcast about life at the heart of an epidemic.

  34. Episode 3: Houseless

    When the novel coronavirus made its way to the United States, it landed here, in the Pacific Northwest. Transmission is a podcast about life at the heart of an epidemic.

  35. Episode 2: Housebound

    When the novel coronavirus made its way to the United States, it landed here, in the Pacific Northwest. Transmission is a podcast about life at the heart of an epidemic.

  36. Episode 1: Flattening the Curve

    When the novel coronavirus made its way to American shores, it landed right here in the Pacific Northwest. Now, the Seattle area is the epicenter of America’s COVID-19 outbreak.

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

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.

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KNKX Public Radio

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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.

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Transmission has 36 episodes. Check the episode list to see recent publication dates and frequency.

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