COVIDpod

Josefine Nielsen and Sebastian Beckman are high school students in the architecture program at Pauliskolan in Malmö, Sweden. In this episode, we hear their thoughts, two and a half months into the switch to distance learning in high schools and...

How is social distancing affecting parenting, and how deep has the pandemic lodged itself in your subconscious? In this episode, I speak about these things with Christopher Honey, an assistant professor at the Department of Psychological and Brain...

Paul Franks is a professor of genetic epidemiology at Lund University in Sweden. In this episode, we discuss Sweden's unique and rather controversial approach to COVID 19, relying on voluntary compliance with social distancing guidelines rather than a...

Gareth Lipunga is a study coordinator with the Brain Infections Global initiative in Malawi, where he works with diagnostics and management of infectious brain diseases in this developing country. In our conversation, we talk about some of the unique...

"...It's not just a problem I have to solve," recalls Linn Johansson, now that she has time to reflect in the midst of a pandemic. Linn is a freelance theater actor and recent graduate from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London,...

As runs on the supermarkets leave store shelves empty during this pandemic, I speak to Axel Holst, who is an employee of Asko, Norway's largest wholesale grocer. We discuss just how much supply there is in the supply chain, and talk about his personal...

Chao Jiang is a researcher at the Life Sciences Institute in Zhejiang University in China. He is interested in evolution, especially of microorganisms. We chat about the initial Coronavirus outbreak and its control in China. We also talk about the...

Sarah Richards is a nurse studying to be a specialist in geriatrics, working at the Skåne University Hospital in Malmö. She discusses the challenges faced by hospitals and their elderly patients as we prepare for COVID 19 in Sweden. She also shares a...

Venkat Srinivasan is my brother, and chief operating officer at Trimaster Metrology in Pune, India. We speak on the day of a nationwide curfew that was being tested in India, where he reflects on the changes he has experienced over the past month as a...

We hear from Chitra Pattabiraman, a viral epidemiologist and research fellow at NIMHANS in Bangalore, India. She is actively involved in the efforts to combat the emerging outbreak in this country of 1.3 billion people, which is facing a nationwide...

In this episode, I speak with Iulia Heybrock, a high school teacher in Malmö with a PhD in linguistics (speaking no less than 7 languages!). We discuss the situation in Italy, where she has lived many years, and discuss creative solutions in the...

Aron is my 4 year old. We talk about what it's been like these last few days in self-quarantine at home.

Holger Wendt is my father in law. An unusually optimistic person, he shares some wisdom from an Italian grandma and points out some silver linings in the current crisis.

I speak with Jesh Pradesh, a theater student and dance enthusiast from India, currently attending the Laboratorio theatre school in Barcelona. He speaks from self quarantine in Spain, where the outbreak is exploding as we record. We talk about how...

In this conversation, I speak with Krithika Rajaram, a postdoctoral fellow studying malaria at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.  We talk about COVID 19 caught individuals and nations off guard, and...

I'm Velocity, a microbiologist, following the COVID 19 story from self-quarantine in my home, in Malmö, Sweden. Let's get started!