Anger and the Delta variant
Aug 27, 2021
Sean Collins, Zahra Esmail DO, Christina Rothans LCSW, Alexandra Fleming MSW,& Binyamin Appelbaum
Episode Summary
The Delta variant of Covid-19 is sickening un-vaccinated people – including record numbers of young people – filling ICUs, taxing caregivers, and stoking economic uncertainty. Today we explore the anger many feel with the anti-vax, anti-mask advocates through the lens of two clinicians, a New York Times editorial board member, and a therapist.
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Episode Notes
We return to two caregivers who poignantly described the Winter Surge in Southern California in our episode "COVID-19 Realities," in January 2021. Listener advisory: The effects on these caregivers of treating unvaccinated patients is startling.
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Zahra Esmail, DO
Palliative Care Physician
Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center
Torrance, Calif.
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Christina Rothans, LCSW
Palliative Care Social Worker
Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center
Torrance, Calif.
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We discuss the challenge of getting public health messages to compete with economic messaging in a culture that is predisposed to treat the market with primacy.
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Binyamin Appelbaum
Lead writer on Economics & Business, author of "The Economists' Hour"
The New York Times Editorial Board
New York, N.Y.
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Finally, we turn to a therapist to ask about strategies for moving beyond the anger that many feel with the resurgence of serious illness and deaths with the Delta wave – something that could have been prevented with a higher percentage of vaccination.
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Alexandra Fleming, MSW, LICSW
Therapist
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