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COVID-19: The Timeline So Far, What We Know, and What We Can Do

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-COVID-19) is a new strain of a relatively new human coronavirus. It is a positive single-stranded RNA virus. If you remember our episode on the 1918 Influenza Pandemic, influenza is also an RNA virus. However, influenza is a negative single-stranded RNA virus, which is crucial to distinguish because there is this running assumption that the current outbreak is "just the flu." They are very different.

Brooke MorrisMarch 27, 2020coronavirus, covid-19, medicine, virus, health, CDC, minisode, naptime nightmare, podcast, epidemiology, pandemic, epidemic, disease, information, timelineComment

Will You REALLY Get Cancer if You Eat Meat?

This time, the Things That Keep Me Up at Night crew discuss the 2017 “documentary” What the Health, a hyper-biased trek that explores the correlation between meat-based diets and basically every chronic disease known to man. Also, Olivia gives out her favorite salsa recipe (even if she is confused about where capsaicin comes from).

Brooke MorrisSeptember 24, 2019health, fitness, documentary, film, review, podcast, vegan, what the health, medicine, diseaseComment