logo
episode-header-image
Aug 2020
12m 22s

Testing 1, 2, 3

CNN
About this episode
Six months into this pandemic, the United States has not yet scaled up testing enough to help control the coronavirus. CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta takes a look at recent testing developments, and answers listener questions. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visi ... Show More
Up next
Oct 22
Don’t Get a Facelift Until You Hear This
Plastic surgery is booming right now, as celebrities embrace transparency and GLP-1s change our skin. Dr. Sanjay Gupta talks to longtime friend and board-certified plastic surgeon Dr. Julius Few about how it all plays out in his office. Madeleine Thompson and Sofia Sanchez produc ... Show More
41m 17s
Oct 15
Why So Much of What We Know About Dementia Has Changed
As scientists make strides against dementia with new tests and drugs, Dr. Sanjay Gupta talks with journalist Robert Kolker about “The Vanishing Family,” his new book chronicling one family’s struggle with a particular form of the disease. Madeleine Thompson and Sofia Sanchez prod ... Show More
37m 42s
Oct 8
Can We Really Wait Longer to Have Kids?
More people are using fertility treatments to have kids later. But how much time can science really buy? Sanjay talks with reproductive endocrinologist Dr. Lucky Sekhon about what science can — and can’t — promise. Jennifer Lai and Leying Tang produced this episode with assistanc ... Show More
36m 36s
Recommended Episodes
Jan 2022
COVID-19 Rapid Testing (Jan. 8, 2022)
How reliable are at-home COVID-19 tests? Are there shortcomings to “testing out” of vaccine mandates? IDSA members Dial Hewlett, MD, FIDSA of the Westchester County Health Department and Nira Pollock, MD, FIDSA of Boston Children’s Hospital join us to discuss the latest on COVID- ... Show More
33m 22s
Mar 2020
Why did the USA fail in its initial coronavirus response?
‘It’s a failing, let's admit it’ says top health official, Dr Anthony Fauci. He’s talking about the fact that it took a month for a working coronavirus test to be rolled out around the country, while other countries were testing thousands of people. How was this allowed to happen ... Show More
23m 51s
Nov 2021
Dr. Sanjay Gupta looks to a future living with COVID in 'World War C'
We've all heard talk about "the new normal," whatever that even is. CNN's chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta has his own ideas, and despite the harsh realities of nearly two years living through a pandemic — quarantines, hospital staffing shortages, massive loss of life ... Show More
7m 38s
Jul 2020
The Data Disaster in the U.S.
More than a month into a resurgence of the novel coronavirus that has besieged Sun Belt states, flooded hospitals and strained public-health infrastructure, the U.S. still lacks a complete picture of the reality on the ground. That’s because the U.S. doesn’t have ANY real-time sy ... Show More
12m 13s
Dec 2021
NIH Director Talks The Pandemic, Vaccine Hesitancy And Americans' Health
Dr. Francis Collins talks with health correspondent Selena Simmons-Duffin about Americans' overall health, how tribalism in American culture has fueled vaccine hesitancy, and advises his successor on how to persevere on research of politically charged topics — like guns and obesi ... Show More
16m 7s
Mar 2020
Pres. Trump contradicts Pence: "Anybody who needs a test gets a test"
President Trump insisted that anybody who needs to be tested for Coronavirus can get tested. In his own news conference, Vice President Mike Pence bluntly replied to questions about the availability of testing kits. And Dr. Sanjay Gupta joins Jim Sciutto to discuss the mixed mess ... Show More
41m 30s
Mar 2021
Biden’s Covid-19 Tightrope
Urging states to be patient. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 
4m 13s
Mar 2020
Sanjay Gupta on COVID-19
Dr. Sanjay Gupta (American neurosurgeon and medical reporter) joins us for an informative episode on COVID-19. Sanjay takes time out of his incredible busy schedule to answer Dax and Monica's questions about the pandemic. He hits many topics such as immunity, correct precautions, ... Show More
48m 34s