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How does access to pain medicine differ between nations and how does this impact public health? For more information checkout: Pain management in low- and middle-income countries (PMID: 33456843), Guide to Pain Management in Low-Resource Settings (Author: International Association for the Study of Pain), Chronic pain: a review of its epidemiology and associated factors in population-based studies (PMID: 31079836), Vital Signs: Prescription Opioid Pain Reliever Use During Pregnancy — 34 U.S. Jurisdictions, 2019 (PMID: 33180599), Maternal and Infant Characteristics Associated with Opioid Use During Pregnancy: A Population-Based Study Using Birth Certificate Data (PMID: 30550261), Trends, Patterns, and Maternal Characteristics of Opioid Prescribing During Pregnancy in a Large Population-based Cohort Study (PMID: 32054599), Neonatal Outcomes Associated with Maternal Use of Opioids During Pregnancy (PMID: 31013277), Addressing the Opioid Epidemic in Low-Income and High-Minority Communities (PMID: 31546158), Disparities in Access to Non-Opioid Pain Management Options in Medicaid Populations (PMID: 31167534), Socioeconomic Disparities and Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome: Implications for Maternal and Child Health (PMID: 30117882), The Impact of Socioeconomic and Racial Disparities on Opioid Use Disorder in Pregnancy (PMID: 32746981), Barriers to Accessing Addiction Treatment and Maternal Health Services Among Medicaid Populations (PMID: 30392954), Maternal Use of Opioids During Pregnancy and Congenital Malformations: A Systematic Review (PMID: 29376100), CDC: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, PRAMS | CDC: Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, NVSS | CDC: National Vital Statistics Sytem | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, NIDA | NIH: National Institute on Drug Abuse | National Institutes of Health, ChatGPT - Open AI, CANVA: Visual Suite for Everyone.  

What is antimicrobial resistance and how is it impacting us and our health? For more information checkout: Discovery and preclinical development of new antibiotics (PMID: 24646092), Five barriers to addressing antimicrobial resistance (Author: Rohan Kocharekar), CDC: Antibiotic Rsistance Threats in the United States 2019, National Strategy for Combating Antibioticresistant Bacteria (Obama Administration), National Action Plan for Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria 2020-2025 (ASPE), United States National Actiona Plan (CDC), Enhancing US-Japan Cooperation to Combat Antimicrobial Resistance (PMID: 25470465), A View on 20 Years of Antimicrobial Resistance in Japan by Two National Surveillance Systems: The National Epidemiological Surveillance of Infectious Diseases and Japan Nosocomial Infections Surveillance (PMID: 34680770), Estimating the Economic and Clinical Value of Reducing Antimicrobial Resistance to Three Gram-negative Pathogens in Japan (PMID: 34703834), Strategy on Antiobiotic Resistance Switzerland (StAR), Epidemiological aspects of non-human antibiotic usage and resistance: implications for the control of antibiotic resistance in Ghana (PMID: 22413809), Occurrence of Antibiotics and Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria in Landfill Sites in Kumasi, Ghana (Article ID: 6934507), Determinants of Inappropriate Antibiotics Use in Rural Central Ghana Using a Mixed Methods Approach (PMID: 32266200), Resistance to antimicrobial drugs in Ghana (PMID: 22259250), Scoping Report on Antimicrobial Resistance in India, India's National Action Plan for antimicrobial resistance – An overview of the context, status, and way ahead (PMID: 31334140), Antimicrobial resistance in the environment: The Indian scenario (PMID: 31219076).

Mark visits the Science Museum in London to look at their Collecting Covid-19 objects and talk to Natasha McEnroe, the museum's Keeper of Medicine, about their curatorial choices. The collection currently comprises over 400 items relating to the Covid-19 pandemic, including some major works of art. Hosted by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With: Natasha McEnroe, Keep of Medicine at Science Museum London @natashamcenroe https://www.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/project/collecting-covid-19/ Roxanna Halls on her painting of Katie Tomkins, Mortuary and Post-Mortem Services Manager at West Herts Hospitals NHS Trust, created as part of the Portraits for NHS Heroes project in response to the pandemic https://www.instagram.com/roxanahallsartist/?hl=en @RoxanaHalls https://www.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/blog/artwork-roxana-halls/ Will Haynes, from the University of Sheffield's geography department, on the project, “collecting the loneliness of students in the pandemic” @willr_haynes https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/geography/news/geography-students-publish-research-article Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter @GoingViral_pod Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast  If you enjoy our podcast - please leave us a rating or review.  Thank you!

One of the most important functions of journalism is to bear witness to historic events. But in the case of the coronavirus pandemic, some of the most unflinching witnesses to the crisis that engulfed the NHS in 2020-2021 were doctors and frontline health workers. In this episode, the Oxford-based palliative care doctor, Rachel Clarke, recalls her experience of the first wave of Covid-19 as it ripped through the wards of her local hospital and emphasises the importance of holding the government to account for the UK's coronavirus death toll. Recorded at the Department of Journalism at City, University of London on March 10th, Dr. Rachel Clarke's remarks came at a workshop convened with the Science Museum on “Connecting in the time of Covid”.  We will be sharing further outtakes from the workshop in forthcoming episodes. Hosted by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With Dr. Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford https://www.doctoroxford.com/ @cityjournalism  “Connecting in the time of Covid”: https://tinyurl.com/2p9ez37h Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter @GoingViral_pod      Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast If you enjoy our podcast – please leave us a rating or review. Thank you!

Interview with Dr. Melinda Aldrich, who is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Genetic Medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. We learn about her path to her current research as well as about how different factors impact lung cancer and how race and ethnicity can influence prognosis. We also discuss how important it is to include minority populations in our study research cohorts to truly be able to understand diseases and their development.

Let's learn about the relationship between epigenetics and public health. We will learn what epigenetics is, how epigenetic modifications occur, as well as how our own epigenetics can continue to evolve. Lastly, we will look at how epigenetics can help us improve public health and develop population specific therapeutics to help tackle diseases.

Let's learn about the relationship between environmental health and public health. We will discuss the topic of environmental health and its effect on animals and ultimately humans, through issues with microplastics usage and fracking. Lastly, we will look at how these issues can also impact mental health of individuals. 

Let's analyze the relationship between addiction and drug abuse with public health. We will discuss the current state of addiction and drug abuse, the opioid crisis in the nation, and the programs that have been developed to help tackle this concern. Lastly, we will look at how public health epidemiology can help increase awareness, create new prevention methods, and develop interventions to help with this issue. 

Interview with Dr. Muhammad Zaman, who is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor of Biomedical Engineering and International Health at Boston University. We discuss his journey to engineering and how he found his purpose in bringing engineering solutions to underserved populations as well as the various ways global health can be improved through thoughtful and nuanced engineering and public health solutions.

Let's analyze the impact of engineering on public health and its advancements. We will discuss how engineering has contributed to the field of public health by helping researchers perform laboratory and field studies, overseeing research and development for solutions-based products, conducting disaster relief and emergency response, and engaging in public health program management.

Interview with Dr. Edward Silberman, who is an American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Certified General Psychiatrist as well as a Professor and the Vice Chair of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine. We discuss his journey to psychiatry, his perspectives and opinions on the current state of psychiatry, and how this field has evolved over his career and especially during the pandemic.

Let's analyze the state of mental health during the pandemic through the lens of the Social Ecological Model. We will discuss the various layers of impact and how public health can help address issues.  *Disclaimer: We want to acknowledge that though this episode focuses on mental health we are not mental health professionals and this is not medical advice. If you or a loved one is experiencing a mental health crisis, we recommend that you contact a professional in the field and seek appropriate care. In the show notes we have included links to professional organizations that can help those seeking help, including Crisis Hotline and the National Suicide Hotline. 

Pandemics don't tend to register in collective memory and there are almost no memorials to the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic, but Covid-19 looks set to be different.  Today Mark and Hannah visit the ‘National Covid Memorial Wall' on the South Bank of the Thames in London, opposite the Houses of Parliament.  Stretching 500 metres along Albert Embankment, the wall is an audacious work of guerrilla art, comprising of 150,000 hand-drawn hearts – one for every British victim of the coronavirus.  To find out more, Mark speaks to the founders of the group ‘Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice' - Jo Goodman, Matt Fowler and Nathan Oswin, who dreamt up the people's memorial. Hosted by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With Hannah Mawdsley @HannahMawdsley Jo Goodman Matt Fowler Nathan Oswin @CovidJusticeUK / @CovidMemorialUK For more information about the National Covid Memorial Wall, visit: www.covidfamiliesforjustice.org Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter @GoingViral_pod      Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast If you enjoy our podcast – please leave us a rating or review. Thank you!

In this special episode, supported by the Department of Journalism at City, University of London, Mark speaks to three UK-based health and science reporters about the highs and lows of covering the Covid-19 pandemic: Sarah Boseley, The Guardian’s Health Editor; Victoria Macdonald, Health and Social Care Editor at Channel 4 News and Shaun Lintern, the Independent’s Health Correspondent.  What’s it been like being on the front line of the story of the century?  And looking back, what do they wish they had known earlier or done differently? Hosted by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With Sarah Boseley, The Health Editor of The Guardian @sarahboseley www.theguardian.com/profile/sarahboseley Victoria Macdonald, Health and Social Care Editor, Channel 4 News @vsmacdonald www.channel4.com/news/by/victoria-macdonald Shaun Lintern, Health Correspondent, Independent @ShaunLintern www.independent.co.uk/author/shaun-lintern This episode is supported by the Department of Journalism, City, University of London www.city.ac.uk/about/schools/arts-social-sciences/journalism Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter @GoingViral_Pod    Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast

Today Mark explores the discovery of the first vaccine, against Smallpox in 1796, by the English country doctor Edward Jenner.  With Owen Gower, General Manager of Dr. Jenner’s House Museum.  Meanwhile, Melissa catches up with Mark’s progress in the Novavax Covid-19 vaccine trial, the very latest in vaccine science.  From Smallpox to Covid-19: this is the house that Jenner built. Hosted by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With Owen Gower, General Manager, Dr. Jenner’s House, Museum and Garden, The home of vaccination. @owentg jennermuseum.com / @DrJennersHouse Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter @GoingViral_pod      Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast If you enjoy our podcast please leave us a rating or review - thank you! 

Interview with Grace Phelan, who is a certified nutrition support clinician working as a Nutrition Support Coordinator and Critical Care Nutritionist at Tufts Medical Center. We discuss critical care nutrition, national nutrition trends, patient nutrition care, and the future of nutritional policy.

This is not the first time scientists have raced to develop vaccines against a new disease.  In the 1960s, scientists faced a similar crisis over rubella, also known as German measles.  Today Mark explores the race to create the rubella vaccine with Dr. Stanley Plotkin, dubbed ‘The Godfather of Vaccines’.  In 1964, working in his Wistar Institute laboratory in Philadelphia, Stanley developed the rubella vaccine — the “R” in MMR— that’s now used across the world.  And Melissa speaks to science writer Meredith Wadman about the ethics of creating the rubella vaccine. Hosted by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With Dr. Stanley Plotkin, Professor Emeritus at the Wistar Institute and University of Pennsylvania, and consultant to the vaccine industry. vaccinestoday.eu/stories/author/splotkin/ Meredith Wadman @meredithwadman, Reporter @ScienceMagazine, Author of "The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease”. meredithwadman.com   sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/physician-whose-1964-vaccine-beat-back-rubella-working-defeat-new-coronavirus Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter @GoingViral_pod      Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast If you are enjoying our series do leave us a rating or review! Thank you

Let's learn about nutritional science and epidemiology, its history and evolution, and how public health policies can help!

Interview with Megan Paskey, who is the current, and first, Community Food Systems and Farm to School Coordinator for the Indiana Department of Health, sitting in the Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity. We discuss the issue of maternal and child health as well as its barriers to equality of care, maternal mental health, and the systemic changes that need to occur. 

Let's learn about maternal and child health epidemiology, its root causes, and how public health interventions can help!

Interview with Dr. Loren Lipworth, who is the Associate Director for the Division of Epidemiology for Epidemiology at Vanderbilt University and Research Professor of Medicine for Epidemiology at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. We discuss health disparities in cancer epidemiology research and the importance of inclusivity of all races and ethnicities in research cohorts and studies.

Conversation between Pranoti and Saimrunali, where they discuss cancer health disparities in epidemiology research and practice.

Let's learn about cancer epidemiology, the history behind it, and how it has helped us improve the identification and assessment of risk factors!

Interview with Dr. Peter Rebeiro, who is the current Director of Graduate Studies for Epidemiology at Vanderbilt University as well as a Professor of Medicine and Biostatistics at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. We discuss the importance of infectious disease epidemiology, HIV Care Continuum, health disparities of HIV, and mental health of HIV.

Let's learn about infectious disease epidemiology and the infectious disease model as well as the progression of disease timeline!

It’s the science story of the century - how successful vaccines against Covid-19 have been created in under a year. Mark explores the back-story on how they did it so quickly with Dr Anthony Fauci, Director of the NIAID and Sarah Gilbert from the Jenner Institute, Oxford. He gets the low down on the vaccine science from scientist Rob Swanda and he talks vaccines vs. variants with Wendy Barclay from Imperial College London. Hosted by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., NIAID Director www.niaid.nih.gov/about/director Professor Sarah Gilbert, Saïd Professorship of Vaccinology, Jenner Institute & Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine www.jenner.ac.uk/team/sarah-gilbert Rob Swanda @ScientistSwanda / Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UClU56Y1m8J9w82itIEXEHFQ?view_as=subscriber Professor Wendy Barclay, Action Medical Research Chair Virology, Imperial College London. www.imperial.ac.uk/people/w.barclay Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter @GoingViral_pod      Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast If you enjoy these podcasts, please leave us a rating or review.  Thank you.

Interview with Dr. William Schaffner, who is the current Medical Director and past President of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases as well as a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. We discuss the importance of vaccines, the evolution and history of vaccine development, and the future of vaccine technology. 

Let's learn about how vaccines are designed, developed, and distributed! 

On New Year’s Eve 2020, Mark took his mum to St Charles’s Hospital in London’s North Kensington to get a shot of the new Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, almost a year after the coronavirus had emerged in Wuhan. It’s the science story of the century - how successful vaccines against Covid-19 have been created in under a year. Mark explores how they did it so quickly with Adrian Hill, Director of the Jenner Institute in Oxford behind the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. And against the backdrop of global vaccine hesitancy, and as Covid-19 cases surge in Britain’s second wave, Mark speaks to Peter Openshaw from Imperial College London about the magic of vaccines. Hosted by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With Professor Adrian Hill, Lakshmi Mittal and Family Professorship of Vaccinology; Director of the Jenner Institute; Co-Director, Oxford Martin Programme on Vaccines; Fellow of Magdalen College. www.ox.ac.uk/news-and-events/find-an-expert/professor-adrian-hill Peter Openshaw Professor of Experimental Medicine at Imperial College at Imperial College, London. www.imperial.ac.uk/people/p.openshaw / @p_openshaw Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter @GoingViral_pod      Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast If you enjoy these podcasts please leave us a rating or review - thank you.

Disease ecologist Peter Daszak speaks to Mark down the line from his hotel room in Wuhan, China, on day 4 of his quarantine. He’s a member of the World Health Organisation team currently investigating the origins of SARS-CoV-2.  Hosted by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With @PeterDaszak the President of EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit dedicated to understanding the connections between human, animal, and environmental health. Facebook @EcoHealthNYC Twitter @EcoHealthNYC Instagram @ecohealth_alliance Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter @GoingViral_pod      Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast

Let's review the concepts we learned with a case study to conclude our first season!

Let's learn about measures of association - risk ratio, rate ratio, and odds ratio!

Let's learn about natality frequency measures - crude birth rate and crude fertility rate!

Let's learn about mortality frequency measures - crude death rate, cause-specific death rate, infant mortality rate, and maternal mortality rate!

Let's learn about morbidity frequency measures - incidence and prevalence!

Let's learn about the main frequency measures - ratios, rates, and proportions!

Let's learn about the various types of experimental analytic studies - clinical trial, community trial, and randomized control trial!

Let's learn about the various types of observational analytic studies - cohort, case-control, and cross-sectional studies!

Let's learn about the various types of descriptive studies - case reports, case series, and rate studies!

Let's learn about the two main types of epidemiology studies - descriptive and analytic studies!

Let's learn about the epidemiological method, which is similar to the scientific method but for epidemiology studies!

Mark returns to a subject close to his heart: the Spanish Flu of 1918/19 and asks what can we learn from that pandemic of 100 years ago? With Wendy Moore and Hannah Mawdsley. Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With Wendy Moore, author of The Knife Man; Wedlock; How to Create the Perfect Wife; and The Mesmerist. Her new book is ENDELL STREET: The Trailblazing Women who ran World War One’s Most Remarkable Military Hospital (Atlantic, UK). Published in the US (Basic Books) as NO MAN’S LAND: The Trailblazing Women who ran Britain’s most extraordinary Military Hospital during World War 1. You can hear ENDELL STREET adapted for BBC Radio 4 here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000jmpp Twitter @wendymoore99 www.wendymoore.org  Hannah Mawdsley, Twitter: @HannahMawdsley Series Producer Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter @GoingViral_pod      Follow us on Instagram goingviral_thepodcast 

Let's learn about what public health is and how epidemiology contributes to the functions and services of public health!    

Let's learn the definition of the word epidemiology!

Check out the trailer for the new podcast Going Viral | Basics for Epidemiology starting on June 1st! Song: “Aspire” by Scott Holmes from the free music archive CC BY-NC 4.0.

Mark examines the origins of Covid-19 and why we failed to heed the warnings about coronaviruses with virus hunter Peter Daszak, President of EcoHealth Alliance. Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With @PeterDaszak the President of EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit dedicated to understanding the connections between human, animal, and environmental health. EcoHealth Alliance works in 30 countries around the world to identify and study the threat of emerging zoonotic disease. EcoHealth Alliance has been instrumental in understanding the origins and spread of diseases like SARS, MERS, Nipah virus, and Ebola, among others. EcoHealth Alliance also published the first ever global emerging disease hotspots map, identifying regions where the threat is highest. Dr. Daszak helped to launch the Global Virome Project, an ambitious vision to identify all of the world's unknown viruses. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and Chair of its Forum on Microbial Threats. Facebook @EcoHealthNYC Twitter @EcoHealthNYC Instagram @ecohealth_alliance Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter @GoingViral_pod      Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast

With the UK recording the highest death toll from Covid-19 in Europe, Mark speaks to Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet and Robert Dingwall, medical sociologist at Nottingham Trent University, who sits on the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (NERVTAG) to help him make sense of the British government’s decision-making. Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With Richard Horton, Editor of The Lancet medical journal www.thelancet.com / @richardhorton1 Robert Dingwall, medical sociologist and a member of NERVTAG @rwjdingwall Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter: @GoingViral_pod     Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast

Mark debunks the latest #batshitcrazy conspiracy theories about Covid-19 with David Robert Grimes and Mike Jay. Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With David Robert Grimes @drg1985 cancer researcher and vocal opponent of conspiracy theorists. His new book ‘The Irrational Ape’ on why we get everything from medicine to politics wrong and how we can stop ourselves falling victim to fools, liars and charlatans, will be out on Sept 5th 2020. Mike Jay @MikeJayNet author and cultural historian, Mike writes widely on the history of science and medicine. https://mikejay.net/books/the-influencing-machine/ https://mikejay.net/darkness-over-all/ https://mikejay.net/stranger-fiction/ Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter: @GoingViral_pod      Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast

Mark checks our emotional health with Thomas Dixon, Professor of History at Queen Mary University of London and Nancy Lublin, the founder & CEO of CrisisTextLine.org Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With @ProfThomasDixon Professor of History at Queen Mary University of London where he runs the Wellcome Trust funded 'Living With Feeling' project. His most recent book is Weeping Britannia: Portrait of a Nation in Tears. You can find out more about his team's 'Developing Emotions' schools project and how to download the teaching materials at the History of Emotions blog.  Thomas's BBC Radio 4 series 'Five Hundred Years of Friendship' is available on BBC Sounds, and you can hear his podcast series about anger on SoundCloud or Apple Podcasts. Nancy Lublin, Founder & CEO, of Crisis Text Line, Free 24/7 support at your fingertips, CrisisTextLine.org, @CrisisTextLine  Guest Presenter: Olivia Honigsbaum  Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter: @GoingViral_pod     

Mark Honigsbaum talks facts, figures and projections about Covid-19 to Andrew Noymer, medical demographer and professor of public health at University of California Irvine. Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With @AndrewNoymer  Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter @GoingViral_pod